Q: Otis
PAX: Bail Bonds, flyball, Mooch, 30 second warning, Astrophizzy, Bucky, Otis
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
WARMUP: Just take off
THE THANG: ruck over to the elementary school, pass the middle school and head to the high school
MARY: n/a
ANNOUNCEMENTS: F3 3rd Anti-trafficking campaign coming October 5th
COT: Form vs Game
Game in our culture is a willingness to try, to jump in, to have a go. Game in fighting is a little different. It’s a willingness to be punched in the face, to embrace the pain and fear, to lean into the fight and not cower in fear.
The church today trains people in forms, but it has lost the concept of game.
We have Bible form, prayer form, fasting form, serving form, volunteer form,
community form, but what we don’t have is game. So little of what we talk about
on Sundays shows up in real life.
People have forgotten that the point of practice is not the practice itself but to
prepare us to follow Jesus in the real world.
Our discipleship today is often nothing more than the form.
We train and train and train but never do. We read and read and read but never obey.
Resonance is not the same as obedience.
Agreeing is not the same as acting.
Listening is not the same as doing.
Jesus seemed to be baffled by the emphasis on a form-only based discipleship in His day.
““Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you? Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like: he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built. But the one who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the stream broke against it, immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.””
Luke 6:46-49 ESV
