Yesterday was the Super Bowl....and as per usual, I half-heartedly watched and halfway understood the game, and really didn't care who won (although, based soley on geographical location, I rooted for the San Francisco 49ers :) ). Before the game, I had heard a little bit about Ray Lewis and his story and knew that he was a Christian who spoke openly about his faith. At the end of the game though, he made the comment, "If God is for us, then who can be against us?" Great verse....entirely out of context. The mixing of religion and sports is something that's always kind-of irked me, but I could never really pinpoint why, much less put it into words.
An article was written by CJ Stephens in Relevant Magazine just a few days ago about this very topic, and I thought it was so good (and put together far more eloquently than I ever could have) http://www.relevantmagazine.com/current/nation/super-bowl-gospel
I loved this quote: "The problem here isn’t that faith and sports can't coexist. The problem
is that too often faith is used to justify sports accomplishments rather
than faith transforming the way that sports are played." It's not that faith and sports don't belong together at all...it's how they come together that we need to be aware of.
And beyond the arena of sports, I felt that there was so much that was applicable to just every day life. Just as in our lives, our faith isn't a means to justify when we are successful--what happens then when we fail??
Our faith is to transform us. As human beings on this earth, our faith should transform how we live and how we approach life's situations and circumstances--regardless of of whether it goes down as a Win or a Loss in the record books.
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