Football is the number one sport in the world. And, I don't mean THAT kind of football. I mean this kind:
Football is BIGGGG stuff here, and in many places around the world. In most every neighborhood is a soccer pitch. The goals seldom have nets, but they are there, and they are utilized.
We were recently visiting a historic site about 30 Km away. Like many places, there was little signage, well no signage really. After some time spent searching, we knocked on the door at the Magistrates Court. A well dressed man sat behind a desk reading Luke 22. After a short chat he asked if we were Christians. He asked where we went to church and when we told him, he told a story. Last year our congregation had come to his town and held an evangelistic soccer tournament. By all accounts it was a great success. Good thinking, good ministry.
In Corinthians it talks about taking every thought captive. I think the gist of that is to take EVERYTHING captive for the gospel. Here's the passage:
"We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ." 2 Corinth 10:5.
Perhaps we should seriously think about taking soccer captive, taking work captive, taking leisure captive for the gospel. Sounds like a plan.
We were recently visiting a historic site about 30 Km away. Like many places, there was little signage, well no signage really. After some time spent searching, we knocked on the door at the Magistrates Court. A well dressed man sat behind a desk reading Luke 22. After a short chat he asked if we were Christians. He asked where we went to church and when we told him, he told a story. Last year our congregation had come to his town and held an evangelistic soccer tournament. By all accounts it was a great success. Good thinking, good ministry.
In Corinthians it talks about taking every thought captive. I think the gist of that is to take EVERYTHING captive for the gospel. Here's the passage:
"We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ." 2 Corinth 10:5.
Perhaps we should seriously think about taking soccer captive, taking work captive, taking leisure captive for the gospel. Sounds like a plan.
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