From football to tiddly winks, what gets you excited? We’ve all that got one thing gets us on our feet and shouting. For some it’s football, or perhaps tiddly winks is your thing. If tiddly winks is new to you, google it – I won’t spoil the surprise!
If you’ve ever been to the football (soccer) terraces of your local football club then you’ll know the sort of excitement I’m talking about. It’s pretty much the only thing which seems to excite the passion in us British folks. Although the tiddly wink scene can get pretty brutal too, I’m sure.
In church we should be seeing those same levels of passion. I know it exists – just like at the excitement of the Jewish people who set out to kill Jesus, an innocent man. All because they allowed their excitement to spill over to murder.
Excitement is a state of being that can be either good or bad. But, in church, we should be seeing similar levels of excitement to that of the football terraces.
At best, at a football match, your team might score a goal. They might even be sitting at the tippet top of a leader board. And as exciting as that evidently is, it will never even come close to the excitement when someone has chosen to follow Jesus, and experience a life – on earth – of peach, hope and joy, because they have a certainty of their future.
Why don’t we see the levels of excitement in church, that we can see on the football terraces? If we can get excited about 22 people running around in front of us for our entertainment, shouldn’t we striving for similar levels of excitement in our churches?
Just a thought…
Andy B
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