Smarter Sheep

A thought occurred to me yesterday about Christians and sports. For many years now I have watched the church take a stand against certain worldly activities and remove themselves from them while chastising those who do not. Good examples in my life have been secular music, movies, science and politics. I have certianly been a part of this as well. With good intentions we have wound up removing ourselves from culture and failed to be the salt and the light that the Bible tells us to be. The Bible is clear that we are to be in the world but not of the world and I think we have often confused the difference out of fear or lack of knowing the difference. We haven’t spent much time training up a new generation to be effective in these areas and create change. The irony that I considered in a conversation with friends yesterday is that we haven’t done the same thing in sports. We pat athletes on the back and encourage them to make a difference when they make it to the pros, but we tend to clobber a musician who would consider joining a secular music group to go on tour…