All Sundays should be ‘Super Sunday’
What is the most important activity of your life? This is a question that we all should ask ourselves? A Sunday night or two ago, after being at church services, I turn on the playoffs of one of the football leagues. To give you a good idea of the sort of sports “fan” that I am, I don’t know what league it was or the teams that were playing. I think one of the teams was New York.
However, what caught my eye was the atmosphere in which these teams were playing and the fans were witnessing. I didn’t watch too much of that game, but it was played in very cold temperature with snow falling. It would really have to be extraordinarily important to me to attend something like this under such extreme conditions.
So many times we look for excuses to keep from doing certain things. For example, going to church, school, or work. It isn’t really too difficult to find the excuse, if that desire is strong enough. What if we were required to sit out in subfreezing weather in very snowy conditions? Few would want to work in such conditions even if they were paid a large sum of money. I didn’t see it in what I saw of the game, but I’ve seen parts of other games where cameras pan the fans, and there would be some without shirts looking ridiculous.
Recently I saw a newscast pertaining to a group of people who adorned themselves in swimming suits and took a dip in the icy water of a lake. Apparently this is a yearly ritual with them, but one might wonder. Why would any person do either of the two scenarios as was mentioned above. Seems to me rational folks would do everything possible to avoid such illnesses as colds, flu, and pneumonia. Such things may not directly cause these illnesses and discomforts, but certainly exposing oneself to the elements in such a way won’t help anyone health wise. But this is done many times all in the name of sports.
Sunday, Feb. 3, is referred to as “Super Sunday.’ To my way of thinking every Sunday is super, and should be set aside for no other purposes than to worship the Lord and King. But thousands will swarm the bleachers of the stadium where the game is to be played, and multiple thousands will probably view it on TV. Many of these Super Bowl parties will be in church buildings.
Of course, it’s good for church memberships to have fellowships. But I believe much caution should be used in cases along this line. Television is out there to make money. A Super Bowl has a great margin of profit. I’ve seen some of the commercials for the Super Bowl, and they really “ham it up.’
So often, beer is the leading commercial advertiser in sports. Here again is another good reason for not having Super Bowl parties in church. The advertisers may promote products that the scriptures and the church have been fighting for ages.
Remember a year or so ago when a celebrity lost her top during halftime festivities? Who is to say that same ‘accident’ can’t happen again? Wouldn’t that go over big at a gathering of church members?
A visitor of the United States witnessed his first football game. After the conclusion of the game the man went down and got the names and addresses of every player of both teams.
His reasoning was, anyone who would fight that long and hard for one ball should have one. He got them all a ball.