Monday Missional Discussion
Tonight, Super Bowl Sunday, the whole nation paused to be entertained for a whole day. Amazing.
Congratulations by the way to all the Green Bay fans in your win and to Steeler fans for a fine season.
We invest super bowl-weekend with such significance and time and money. I still remember years ago in one of the Dallas super bowl years, Cowboy running back Calvin Thomas was asked by a reporter, “What are your feelings on being in the ultimate game?”
Thomas responded with great wisdom. “If it is ultimate, why do they replay it every year?”
Indeed.
Jesus is the only ultimate entity in the universe. There is none like Him. He is unique. No one, no thing, no event compares to Him. Our mission is to take the message of His life, His death, His resurrection, His soon and coming return to every people, every culture and every language on the planet. So here’s the question.
Are we as serious about what is really ultimate as the players down on the field about their non-ultimate Super Bowl game?
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I would say that there are some who are as serious as the players in the Super Bowl. I did hear Greg Jennings of the Green Bay Packers say during an interview after the game, “to God be the glory.” In fact he said it twice. I also know that some churches take up a Souper Bowl collection to help the poor. It would be interesting to compare all the money & energy spent on the Super Bowl or sports in general to the money & energy spent to advance the gospel by all the churches in the USA. For example, Wikipedia says that Joel Osteen’s ministry reaches over seven million broadcast media viewers weekly in over 100 nations around the world. One problem with trying to measure something like you mention is how would it ever be possible to measure all the acts of kindness and charity done is the name of Jesus Christ in the hope that non-believers would come to know the love of Christ.
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