The Avengers brings in God

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSnHM3rn1jc

So recently, Bryan has been making me watch the entire Marvel super hero movies in order, and the other day it was time to watch The Avengers. Into the movie, this one scene came up in which Captain America brings up the topic of God. In the scene, the woman Natasha, says how he shouldn't try and get involved in a particular fight because they are practically gods (Thor). Captain America responds by saying, "there is only one God, and I'm pretty sure He doesn't dress like that". When I first heard this, I got so excited that they put that into the movie. There weren't any other lines in which God was mentioned in the movie, but it got me so excited that God was included in such a big movie, and that they didn't down play Him, or make fun of Him or anything. They simply brought God into the open, and said there is only one God, and not multiple. It got me excited to think that even if people don't believe in God, or attend church or whatever the case, they just heard a simple statement that there is only one God, and that He doesn't dress up like a fictional character. I am excited that at least people will hear this truth in a pop cultural movie. 

I don't think I am 100% sure on how I would bridge this. I think I would just try and add to the truth that they begin with in the movie. I would try to build a bridge saying that God isn't some fictional character like ones we read about daily (like Thor), but that God is real and is daily involved in our lives and isn't there to ruin our lives. (I suspect the conversation would then turn into why do bad things happen then). 

Lightning Bolt to the Heart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8llndAAQCbk

When I first heard this song on the radio, I didn't think much of it. Just thought it was a nice pop song, with a good beat that I could work out to; so I found it on iTunes and bought it. It wasn't until a few times into listening to the song, did I realize that the lyrics they are singing can be transferred into the way that Jesus has saved us, or the way that His love makes us feel.
The beginning of this song is definitely more about a girl that the guy had feelings for...

(I was all you thought you ever needed

So you said, "how'd I let this slip away?"

On the floor, cold and barely breathing

So it goes

Sleeping all my dreams away

'Til you found me)

But when it begins to get into the pre-chorus, that is when to me, I find a lot of it begins to relate to how the love of God has transformed us.

(Like a lightning bolt to the heart

You woke me up, woke me up

Yeah, you brought me out of the dark

With just one spark, just one spark

Now I can feel your pulse

Kick starting this lifeless soul

Like a lightning bolt to heart

You woke me up, woke me up

Yeah)

This kind of sent me a new way of looking at how Jesus' love for us has transformed me. His love woke me up, it brings me out of the darkness that I was living in and I can feel Him all around me and in His creation.
This song gives an image of what Jesus' love can do for us. It also shows how society is searching for something that only the Lord can provide and give. To me, it is showing how desperate they are for something to jolt them; to shake them up and set them on a path towards light and not darkness. They are clearly singing about it. 

I would use this song to create an entry for conversation to someone who isn't a believer. Ask them questions like, "what do you think he is talking about/meaning in this song?" Hopefully that will create an entry point for me to go in and even show some Christian songs by Christian artists (ie. Lecrae) who have the same message, but instead of talking about an ex girlfriend, he is talking about his relationship with Jesus Christ who has turned his world around and has fulfilled him the way that they are constantly searching. I would use it to explain that we all make mistakes, sometimes we fall away after we said we wouldn't; but in the end, Jesus' love will always bring a spark back to us and get us set on the right path again.