A 4 PART LOOK AT HOW SPORTS AND CHRISTIANITY COME TOGETHER
ASK THE QUESTION THAT REVEALS THE CONDITION OF THE HEART
POWER
"Sport has the power to change the world!"
-Nelson Mandela
SportS carry the power to unite unlike anything else. Nothing can hold the global stage with the likeness that the Olympics or World Cup brings.
SportS provide a bridge to connect with others regardless of where you are in the world.
It unites broken communities around a common causes. IT Creates life long bonds among teammates.
BROKENNESS
"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing"
-Russell "Red" SandersWhile sports carry great power to unite, They also carry great power to divide.
Power TO UNITE embraces our humanity.
Brokenness rejects that very thing in order to exalt SELF over others.
Whether as a player, coach, or fan - it is sportS that can bring our brokenness to the forefront. It is in this brokenness that sports provides a laboratory for us to examine ourselves.
GLORY
“You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon
Our lives are a story of glory. To partake in it and to give it. We crave it because we were made for it. The question becomes who's glory were we made for? Our own GLORY or God's?
Few places is the pursuit of glory as apparent as in sports. Many derive their identity and worth from their performance or allegiance. They seek the same worth which has been stamped on them from the beginning. It was lost when God was rejected as God, and instead man placed themselves on the throne of their own lives.
Our worth was never ours to establish; our value is given To us by God. This is proven through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Who came to reconcile our broken relationship with God.
KINGDOM
"Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done."
-Jesus
Christ did not merely come to die but to show us how to live. To establish His kingdom. We find ourselves in the "already but not yet." The Kingdom is here, but it is not yet whole. our prayers and actions join God in redeeming the world.
As we step into the realm of sports we must ask ourselves the question
"For mine or for Thine is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory?"
