Off Stage

Season One - 7. Does God care about football?


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God has no limits. This central idea is what Greg and RD repeatedly come back to in this week's episode. If you say that God has more important things to think or care about than sports, hobbies, or how you feel today, then you are putting limitations on God. God cares about every single part of every single person's life.

Not only does God care about these things but He wants us to care about them, as well. Both Greg and RD assure listeners that God has given each of us passions in our lives for different hobbies, and God cares about our passions.

With this in mind, Greg and RD do caution that if the success of a sports team is more important to you than the players' salvation, or if you pray more during a football game than you ever do for your neighbors or friends, that is where the passion has crossed into unhealthy. Likewise, if we pursue our passions and hobbies without God in mind or allowing Him to be a part of it with us, we have made our passion a sinful thing. Like Greg discusses in this episode, we cannot pursue our passions to the point of sin.

In going back to the idea that we cannot put limitations on God, Greg and RD consider the question of "Does God care more about relationships than football?" Greg strongly disagrees with this question as a whole because he asserts that even asking the question is limiting God. God infinitely cares about relationships, but He also infinitely cares about football. It's not about what God cares about more, it's about God caring about every single aspect of our lives.

As an example of this, Greg brings up the film Chariots Of Fire, based on Eric Liddell's time as an Olympic runner. In the movie, Eric tells his sister that while God made him to be a missionary to China, God also made him fast, so he knows that pursuing the Olympics is not a bad thing but pleasing to God.

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