Fantasy Football and The Church: Keeping It Unreal, part 2

Some highlights: “I played in the NFL from 2003 through ’08,” he continues in the September 16, 2013 issue.  Years before, he and his friends “dreamed of NFL glory and superstardom.  This was my only truth.  It pushed me to work hard and believe.  I can be a superstar!

“But I wasn’t.”

Picking up right there:

“The fantasy died when the ink dried on my first contract.  This is the NFL, boy.  Now keep up or get out.

“Reality football is different from what I worshipped as a child — and from the idealized vision of the game that so many fantasy football players hold.”

With those excerpts and a lot more foundation and framing, he compares Fantasy Football and Reality Football.

For example:

“Fantasy Football: The NFL is all about Pro Bowlers and Hall of Famers.  Everyone else is a scrub.

“Reality Football: Everyone in the NFL is great at football.  It’s not uncommon for a future Hall of Famer to get smoked in practice by a rookie free agent who won’t make the team.”

So what?  So this:

Fantasy Church: It’s all about the biggest and the best.  Everyone else is a wannabe.

Reality Church: Everyone in your church is great in Christ’s kingdom.  It’s not uncommon for God to use an un-noticed person towards the back of the sanctuary to make a life-saving difference for someone else.

Maybe today that’ll be you or me.