Sports God

I found it here.

This sign is just too funny! Who said being a sports fan isn’t spiritual? (This is in reference to a guy named Brett Favre. Google him.) Don’t we all participate in different “spiritual” acts all of the time? I saw an article headline somewhere that expressed how Christians are more rabid fans of their sports teams than they are of God. I live in Lawrence, KS home of the University of Kansas Jayhawks, where KU basketball is a religious experience. If a game falls on a night that we have a community group or worship, rest assured that there will be little to no attendance. During the pro football season, more people attend the early service than the late service. I am sure you have your own example.

The headline had it right. We will put more energy, emotion, passion, finances into our favorite sports teams (yes capitalism!) than we would with our faith. Somehow someone dying for our sins and taken the burden of guilt from us doesn’t really stir us up as the Kansas Jayhawks winning another title would. We schedule God around our sports times, instead of scheduling our sports around our God times. How did we get here? I confess, I am often there, but living more dualisticly because I am a pastor so I, more or less, force myself to schedule around the “God” times. Whatever the case is sports fans, we need to get some priorities rearranged.

Do you see this in society?

Do you see your self as more passionate about God or about your favorite sports squad?

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