GET YOUR 'GAMEFACE' ON

Not knowing the rules shouldn’t keep us from enjoying certain games and activities.

While we sit in large stadiums, filled with rabid fans yelling till they are hoarse, and how many of them fully understand what is actually unfolding before their very eyes?
This doesn’t keep them from fulfilling a need to belong to a certain faction and join in the revelry.
We can play games without knowing the rules and have a good time doing it. During my short-lived days playing football in junior high, I had a teammate that just moved to Catlettsburg from the far eastern part of the state, He was twelve and probably never witnessed a real game of football. On the first day of practice, he showed up. The coach asked him what position he wanted to play. He responded with an enthusiastic “I wanna be the feller what packs the ball” Thankfully our coach and a few of us knew what that meant. Coach slapped a number 44 jersey on him and put him in the backfield. Did he know the first thing about running the football? Nope, but it didn’t stop him from having fun and he became better as the season went along.
While I enjoy joining a crowd on occasion, I often wonder why we can’t get that excited over Jesus and fill the churches to the brim every Sunday. A person can drive hundreds of miles and spend hours of driving to attend an event and then can’t get up and drive 2 miles to go to church. Or, if the game is not over till late on a Saturday will make the decision to sleep-in on Sunday morn.
Several years ago a co-worker of mine told me she golfed every Sunday morning and that was her “church” she was out in God’s country enjoying what He had created and that was her quiet time. She immediately saw the skepticism on my face and “you’re not buying that are you?’ This opened up an opportunity to share the gospel.
Many people attend church for different reasons; fellowship, commitment, sense of belonging and even guilt but it should only be for one reason and that is ‘to worship’.
We should join together as a group of baptized believers to worship and then go forth willingly to share the love of Christ to a lost and dying world.
Can we share the love of Christ without knowing all the rules? What if say something wrong? What if the person we are witnessing to turns a deaf ear? What if we are just plain scared to speak up?
Should any of the reasons keep us from enjoying the game and being part of the revelry?
Get out there and play! The fields are white already for the harvest!