On Smurfs and Rescue Rangers

I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.  They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.  Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.  As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.

(John 17:15-18)

Are you familiar with the Smurfs?  It was a cartoon series on TV in the 1980s about these little blue people named Smurfs that lived in their own community in the forest.  What was interesting about the Smurfs is...