Watching the national reaction to Richard Shermans post game interview interests me considerably. Not that I think Sherman handled it well, its because it teaches us something about ourselves. We are a nation of hypocrites. We expect from others what we are unwilling to do ourselves. When we blow it, we anticipate (even expect) grace and mercy, yet when others blow it, we want justice and spew our judgement without a care. How strange, we sit with beer in hand, watching one of the most violent sports, where men hurl themselves like projectiles to decleat another player, and where trash-talking happens every play on both sides of the ball, yet seconds after a slug-fest, where these men weve been cheering, while using expletives, has a microphone put in his face after making a game winning play to send his team to the Super Bowl, we expect a calm, reasoned, and vanilla comment (which, incidentally we criticize for being too polished and canned), from a 25 year old after a fight. Oh, how weve forgotten the insane babble weve released in the passion of emotional moments. This is a great mirror for the church. How do we respond when we think others have blown it? How do we treat another who is making the same mistakes weve made? Do we understand and remind ourselves of the grace we need and the grace weve received? Or do we sit in our chair, cheering from the sidelines, with expectations and criticism which we refuse to hold ourselves to? Imagine if all our critical energy was turned to prayer, care and discipleship towards the objects of our disdain. What a church, what a nation, wed have.
Posted on: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 17:57:23 +0000
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