Ryan, Thank you for your ever interesting perspective on many
things, including this latest of North America’s Sunday afternoon
worship service. Indeed it contained the same values ascribed to by most
church goers who showed up in the morning services. It is us, I’m
afraid.
Not only that, but for me this year it followed after
Saturday night worship – the Battle of Alberta. The Edmonton Oilers were
in town to lay a licken on the Calgary Flames. Worship requires a
deliberate decision to cast out or at least avoid evil – in our case it
is the city 300 km down or up the QE2 highway. It was long and it was
hard and it took 102 minutes of penalty for the Oilers to finally
exorcise the Flames!
In hockey we worship at a more basic emotive level with even
more speed than your European football. The same immoral business ethics
control professional sports at all levels, rabid fans pay the
gladiators rather than kill them, and libations provided by the
breweries require another tithe from the faithful.
Cynicism aside, I must say there was even a moment of
inspiration at Super Bowl which I could almost label ‘Christian’. Yes, I
was inspired by the leadership and athleticism of the MVP, Kansas City Chiefs
quarterback Patrick Mahomes, fully guided and supervised by an overweight wisened coach
who finally got his Super Bowl championship! It was like a father-son project. No attitude, just respect and skill and seemingly pure motivation.
Just a bit more inspiring than our Battle of Alberta, and
perhaps something in there for our modern churches seeking faithfulness
(and effectiveness) in and among the young and the elder. Sigh!
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