Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Missing the point

So last week during the closing prayer at our church softball game, one of our members ended the prayer in a very interesting way.  His last line was, and I quote, "See ya on Sunday God!"  Now I should confess that I think opening and closing prayers at church softball games are a joke to begin with, mainly because the one praying usually spouts off some pop theology and something about keeping us free from injury, etc; but this line really made my skin crawl.  And it did so for two reasons.  First, half of our teams players do not come to our church regularly and they play because they are friends of or work for our coach.  So playing with the few of us that do go to the church should be something of a good influence on them, hopefully that is.  I was not surprised to hear one of these guys say to our coach, "Aren't you guys supposed to have like daily interaction with God or something?"  To which I piped in with, "yes, that is the general point."  Which brings me to my second reason, the frustration that some people just don't get it.  We can preach and teach till Jesus comes back, and we probably will, but for some reason people just don't seem to get the point of what we are trying to say.  I guess this is just one way where we can identify with Jesus in those following you do fully grasp your message.  Jesus, grant us the grace we need to serve like you did.

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