In my high school yearbook, I listed bleacher coaches as one of my pet peeves as a senior. My feelings have not changed. However, I am now finding out that bleacher coaches do not only exist in sports. Alot of people who are not church go-ers are pretty quick to point out all that is wrong with those who do go to church. In football, for example, kids and coaches spend countless hours in the offseason and during the season, doing the best they can, only to have an audience (not all fans but some) judge, critique, and analyze them 10 nights a year. Although with church, the circumstances are much different, there can be a few smiliarities identified with both. It is always easy, with either, to point out the bad or suggest changes that may improve both a team or the church. But most of these suggesters do so outside of the battlefield. No football team will ever be perfect. No church or church goer will ever be perfect. I invite each of you who arent in this spiritual war between good and evil to stop judging those who are living for Christ or waiting for the smallest fault to surface so you can cry hypocrite or fraud. Join the Army of the Lord! He has already won the war! He is inviting each of us to pick up our cross and follow Him. It is easy to sit in the bleachers and yell from your seat. Get up and be about the Fathers business and fight the good fight. Your reward will be eternal and so precious. Anybody can google a playbook or scheme, just like anybody can do the same for Bible verses. Instead of just knowing stuff, start doing stuff. The Bible states it is the do-er who is justified, not the hear-er. Just like in sports, how can you expect to reap what you do not sow.
Posted on: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 03:18:59 +0000
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