{"id":41227,"date":"2015-07-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermon-illustrations\/documentary-records-insecurities-of-young-men\/"},"modified":"2015-07-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T00:00:00","slug":"documentary-records-insecurities-of-young-men","status":"publish","type":"sermon-illustrations","link":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermon-illustrations\/documentary-records-insecurities-of-young-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Documentary Records Insecurities of Young Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the documentary &quot;The Mask You Live In,&quot; a scene shows a U.S. school teacher giving a group of high school boys a circular piece of paper. On one side they write what their image is, and on the other what they are feeling. Then they scrunch up the paper and throw it to another kid. 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