Pastor Quits Sports

I was at the church the other day and ran across a tract entitled “Pastor Quits Sports.” It had such a tremendous message that I wanted to share it.

Pastor Quits Sports

Football in the fall. Basketball in the winter. Baseball in the spring and summer. Your pastor has been an avid sports fan all of his life. But I’ve had it! I quit this sports business once and for all. You can’t get me near one of those places again.

Want to know why?

1. Every time I went they asked me for money.

2. The people with whom I had to sit didn’t seem very friendly.

3. The seats were too hard and not at all comfortable.

4. I went to many games, but the coach never came to call on me.

5. The referee made a decision with which I could not agree.

6. I suspected that I was sitting with some hypocrites - they came to see their friends and what others were wearing rather than to see the game.

7. Some games went into overtime and I was late getting home.

8. The band played some numbers that I had never heard before.

9. It seems that the games are scheduled when I want to do other things.

10. I was taken to too many games by parents when I was growing up.

11. I recently read a book on sports and now I feel that I know more than the coaches do anyhow.

12. I don’t want to take my children to any games because I want them to choose for themselves what sport they like best.

If you have ever talked to someone about coming to church I am sure that you have heard some of these reasons given for why they will not come. I find it interesting that people do not apply the same standard to other things that they would apply to the church. I have never heard of someone quitting on sports for any of the above reasons, but many have left the church using one of the above as their excuse. People would look at us like we are crazy if we were to apply the above standard to anything else in life, so why do we apply it to the church?