While Sonic’s gaming franchise is home to many of the most iconic console games across many different eras, it doesn’t mean they haven’t produced a few clunkers. Every time Sonic’s development team allowed external gaming trends to influence their design decisions, we ended up with some truly horrible titles such as Sonic’s first attempt at a 3D game called Sonic’s 3D Blast, the broken Kinect atrocity Sonic Free Riders, the flawed Mario Kart knockoff Sonic R, the weak Mario Party clone Sonic Shuffle, or the fighting game abomination that was Sonic: The Fighters. Allowing other games to influence them never worked out well… Sonic has always been best when he blazes a trail for others to follow.

While we are called to be an active and present light in the dark places around us, we must be very careful not to be negatively influenced by the very souls we were sent into the darkness to save. Christ showed us the best example of this, choosing to spend time with those who needed Him the most and leaving THEM changed for the better as a result… keeping His own light pure in the process. Let’s remain committed to our mission to seek and save the lost while ensuring we don’t allow the worldly worldviews that are weighing them down to become a yoke we are sharing… hidden light has no impact on the dark.

Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals”. 1 Corinthians 15:33

Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? 2 Corinthians 6:14

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