Last night in my Pyros (Jr. High Guys) small group, we talked about what it means to be a godly man. After they got done with some of the standard answers (Joe, Jason, nice, good, etc) I asked them if they'd rather be Tony Hawk or a Godly man. None of them chose being a Godly man - and here's where some great truth came out. They said that a Godly men were boring and nice. We then talked about Aragorn, from the Lord of the Rings - across the board - they thought he was cool - because he was dangerous, a leader, he came through, he was loyal, he stood up for the little guy, smoked the bad guy, etc. Most of them didn't see Jesus this way. We then watched the battle of Helm's Deep from the Two Towers where Aragorn prepares and leads the people against Saruman and Lord Saron's forces. We finished it up with a great discussion of what Traits Jesus has in common with Aragorn, both compassion and danger all wrapped into one - that Jesus could be Mother Teresa to the hurting, but Aragorn to the Pharisees. This is such a great group of guys - and the fact that they're bringing their friends to the group tells me a lot about how it's going.