I loved sports as a child. I didn’t matter if it was baseball, football, street hockey, tennis, golf, bowling or whatever other kind of ball could be thrown, hit or caught. However, with soccer, I was “one and done!” I played one year; did not understand it and quit!
If I must admit, when my two oldest first expressed interest in playing soccer, I was not overly impressed! Where had I gone wrong in training my children?
Since then I’ve changed my mind significantly. You see, I understand soccer now. It makes sense to me. It is not just pointless running up and down the field.
I’m not trying to convince you to like soccer (that would be difficult if you are as stubborn as I am!), but consider the following…
Some people don’t like religion because they don’t understand it (that’s why I didn’t like soccer.) Perhaps they had parents who claimed to be religious, but did not live like it. Many simply just don’t know much about true religion. The good news is that when some of these folks are exposed to true religion (they see it lived and hear it taught) they will change their mind and embrace it!
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Soccer appears on the surface to be a “gentle, non-contact” sport. Try telling that to my daughter (Kailey)! The week before I first wrote this article she got kicked in the nose! Some are also deceived believing that Christianity is always smooth and easy.
This can cause problems when they get their first bumps and bruises. Christ warned Christians saying, “Indeed, all who live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted” (2 Tim. 3:12). Christians don’t need to be deceived into thinking that all will be easy because they are seeking to live for Jesus. Opposition will come and sometimes from unexpected places! Just ask Jesus!
If you’d like to, ditch soccer and don’t give it another chance. Don’t even try to understand it. As far as the Christian faith is concerned, though, continue a life-long quest to understand it better and better (and help others to do so) and it will bless your life!
Daren Schroeder
