There are certain issues that just don't stay dead for long, it seems. Take the old church issue, for instance. In a nutshell, it was about churches using Bungie Studio's Halo 3 and various video games to bring kids and teens in. Even now, opinions regarding the effectiveness and moral uprightness of this approach differ.

Proponents have claimed that Halo 3 is full of religious overtones that make relating the game to the Gospel easier. Others, like Mike Matlock and Kedrick Kenerly, have established a group called Christian Gamers Online. The purpose of the group is to use gaming as a Gospel outreach tool. The group also strives to protect impressionable young minds from negative influences at the same time.

Lyle Dorset, an evangelism professor at Samford University's Beeson Divinity School, cautiously supports this approach. The trick, he says, is to use the games to ultimately point to Jesus Christ, and not to the video games themselves.

We can use all kinds of clever tricks to bring young people in or adults in. They may love it, and they may stay for a year, but they will never become true disciples of Jesus Christ and be born again unless the Spirit changes their heart and somebody gives them Christ.