Batman Begins is now out on video. There are plenty of ways you can use this movie to get students to think about Biblical truths. If you want to use something on the internet, you could always use the trailer. The links above will help you to use the trailer to get the discussion started even before your meeting.

Eighteenth century English philosopher Edmund Burke once said, “All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”
In the trailer, there is the quote, “What chance does Gotham have when the good people do nothing?”
The Bible says in James 4:17, “Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins.”

Discussion Questions:

• Can you think of another movie where the character was faced with the responsibility to do good, but chose not to do it?
• What would happen if the people who know to do good don’t do it?
• Have you ever depended on someone else to make a choice to help you?
• What choice did they make? How did you feel?
• Have you ever had to choose to take action to do good?
• How did it feel to know that someone else depended on your choice?
• What are some choices that we make every day that can help or hurt others?
• Have you ever felt God telling you to do something to help someone else?
• What choice did you make?
• If you didn’t do what God was telling you to do, did you feel like you were sinning?
• What should you do/would you do if you were in that situation again?

You can add to or subtract from these questions. They are possibilities. You could post the link to this trailer on your ministries website/blog and have your students respond to the questions in the comments. Then, at your next meeting, you could use their answers as the beginning to the study.

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