Following the mindset of the persecution meme a Pennsylvania church kidnapped their own youth group to teach them what missionary life is like.
I'm not denying that these kidnappings occasionally occur but they don't seem to be frequent enough for churches to go to SEAL team level training regimes to educate their students.
"It was a youth event, to illustrate what others have encountered on a regular basis," he said, adding that the focus of the lesson was "the persecuted church" in other countries...
One of the students educated in this manner finds the process to be unnecessary to say the least:
..."They pulled my chair out from underneath me, and then they told me to get on the ground," she told the station. "I had my hands behind my back. They said, 'Just do as I say, and you won't be hurt.'"
The girl said the teens were taken to the pastor's house, where it appeared he was being assaulted. Eventually, she said, the adults in charge revealed it was a staged event.
"They heard me crying," the girl said. "Why not right then and there tell us it was a joke, when you see me crying?"
Perhaps they should rethink their teaching methods to better suit not scaring the wits out of their congregants.