Smarter Sheep

Ever wonder what would happen if Thursday were really Friday… or Friday was Thursday at the office?

1. Friday Reflections post would come a day early.
2. We would race around all morning to get stuff done in hopes of sneaking out of the office a little early to get good seats at the Boston concert. (Btw: Michael Sweet, the lead singer for the 80’s Christian rock band Stryper is fronting the Boston tour so that makes it Holy if someone judges you for going)
3. We would have sushi for lunch.
4. I would be asking the studio where my website rotators were and reminding them that they promised to have them to me the day before … which would have been Thursday … or in this case Wednesday because we are only pretending it’s already Friday.
5. My kids would be asking me to have friends over to stay the night and have band practice in my back living room…. THE WHOLE BAND….

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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…