April 28, 2014 - Satan The Soccer Coach

The game of soccer (futbol) is one that has never fully caught on in the states. Many believe it is because of the lack of offensive production (low scoring games.) Yet it seems that a game called baseball has done fairly well in the US and it often produces low scoring affairs… and then there is hockey which doesn’t always light up the scoreboard…

 

But therein lies the rub… in hockey or baseball there is always potential for scoring on every play or with every swing of the bat. In baseball the goal is always getting runners in “scoring position.”

 

Yet with soccer there are strategies that involve either controlling time of possession to limit the other team’s touches; or even letting the other team control time of possession while packing in the defense and simply keeping the opponent out of the scoring column… When that happens there may be a lot of brilliant offensive skills being shown without ever even having a strike on goal to attempt a score. And unless you are a soccer fan that can be boring…

 

I think that Satan would make a great soccer coach! He understands fully what it means to let the other team think it is controlling possession and show off their offensive skills while never having a strike on the goal… and thus Christianity can get boring, mundane, and lack “scoring.”

 

I am so tired of hearing so many debates and reading so many opinions delivered by Christians on everything from movies to politics to how enlightened we are... We show off our “skills” yet often forget the mission is to “score goals” via the proclamation of the Good News to all people of the Savior!

 

Of all the things we do here on earth as Christians, the one thing we absolutely cannot do in Heaven is evangelize! It is what we are still here for…

 

Let’s start actively searching for “scoring opportunities”!  Let’s obey the Great Commission while exercising the Great Commandment via the Acts 1:8 Game Plan!

 

Mt 28:19 / Mk 16:15 “Go therefore…

Mt 22:37-40 …love God…love others…

Acts 1:8 ….locally, regionally, and globally!”