Tim Briggs found this a while back. It’s a good reminder of how non-believers can see things.
a good reminder of how non-believers can see things.
- You eat tiny crackers and drink tiny glasses of grape juice.
- You sing. Loudly and passionately. And it’s 8:30 on a Sunday morning. Seriously, who sings, out loud, where others can hear them before 9:00?
- You ask people to come down front. Nobody at my son’s baseball game has ever asked me to make a big life decision right in front of the whole stadium.
ever asked me to make a big life decision right in front of the whole stadium.
- You tell me I need to go somewhere else, into someone else’s home, to really connect.
- You pass a bucket for me to put money in. Do I have to pay to worship here?
- You lay hands on people to pray for them. Never seen that one done in a helpful way in a PTA meeting. Never.
- You preach from the Bible, and keep referring to it as an authority in your life, but I don’t see it like that. It’s a bit strange that you would put such weight into such an old document.
I wonder what non-believers would say about our sports ministries?
- You ask me to wear a shirt with the church name on it but I don’t belong to the church.
- You make me pray before the games but I don’t believe in God – besides what you pray about doesn’t seem relevant to the game we are about to pray.
- You never ask me about how I am doing – either before or after the game. I wonder if you really care about anything more than the game.
- The way you play the game really doesn’t seem very different than the other places I play – coaches yell at the kids and the refs, the parents yell at the players and the refs, and the adult players yell at each other and the refs.
- I really wonder how sports and God fit together but I never hear you talk about that.
What might you add to this list?
