Before suggesting burning the game or destroying it in front of your sons face. I would like to have a couple of questions answered. Like others: How old is your son? How did he get the game? Is this the first time he has played a game that concerned you? Stuff like this is important.



My brother was staying with my uncle and my brother had left his cd's out. My uncle decided to listen to one of them and found that it had content he didn't like. He broke the cd in half and told my brother to keep that stuff out of his house. My brother bought a new cd and learned to hide them.



My point with this is that ultimately we all have free will. Yes, your son is your responsibility, which is why I asked how he got the game in the first place, but he will end up having to make his own decisions. If you just break the game and he doesn't fully understand or doesn't agree, then you will just have upset him and closed off a part of your relationship. I am not saying to allow him the game or hanging out at friends who have it. I am just saying that there are tactful ways to go about it that can actually bring your son closer to the Lord.



Titus 2:6-8

6 Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.

7 In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,

8 Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.



Proverbs 18:19

19 A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.



James 1:19-20



19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:



20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.





James 3:5-6



5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.





I only posted these scriptures as a warning. I think you will be right to correct your son.

Proverbs 19:18

18 Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.



Only, I don't know the situation. It seems as though this is the first time you have seen him doing something drastically pulling him away from the Lord. If this is the case, then I would suggest correcting him but without a wrathful and man-righteousness. If you drop down on him and break the game or throw it away and start the whole thing in anger, then be prepared to hear all of your failings that your child has noticed.

I will be praying for you and your son.