Now, I love football (soccer) as much as the next guy, but I also understand that, at the end of the day, it's just a game. Granted it's a game that can make a day great or turn it sour, but it's still a game. I'd never fight anyone or do anything ridiculous over a game...even with a Chelsea fan.
Because it's just a game....I wish some people knew that. I take this quote from espnsoccernet.com…
"The Togo national team bus has been machine-gunned by Angolan rebels on the Congolese border ahead of the African Nations Cup. Two players are reported to be injured and a Togolese sports ministry spokesman said the bus driver had been killed"
It’s a shame that people can take something so trivial, such as a sport, and take someone’s life because of it. But when it’s all people have, it become more than just a game. People can get all worked up over things that don’t matter, yet we, as Christians, having knowledge of the things that do matter, and will matter for eternity, aren’t doing anything about it.
In Angola, people are machine gunning busses over a game of footy. In the states, you have to hold people at machine gun point to get them to even think of taking the gospel to Angola.
Now, I’m not saying we should go and machine gun busses, because that’s a pretty good way to ruin a testimony, nut I think we could be a little bit more passionate about the God we serve. Grown men will paint their bodies from head to toe for a two hour match, and we (myself included on this one) hate wearing ties for more than two hours at church.
Oh, to see a day when humans were as passionate in their service to the Lord as they were about sports.
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