Posted on 02/05/2011 4:51:32 AM PST by grassboots.org
The Pack is back. And so is the Steel Curtain.
Probably a hundred million people will be watching Pittsburgh and Green Bay in the Super Bowl, with the Steelers hoping to upend the favored Green Bay Packers and gain their seventh championship ring. Some will watch for the game, others for the halftime show. Expensive, slick and sometimes funny commercials will be at center stage. A few viewers will be intrigued by the controversy surrounding quarterback, Ben Roethlisberger.
Where will Christians be sitting when they watch the extravaganza? One church in Dallas, where the big game will be held, canceled services so it could rent out its parking spaces for $82.50 a piece to tailgaters and game attenders. While more and more churches cancel services on Super Bowl Sunday, probably millions of other Christians will trade away the worship of God for fellowship together at church-run Super Bowl parties.
In an earlier day, few American churches thought it wrong to schedule games on Sunday, as long as they were played after church. It was a friendship made, if not in heaven, at least not in hell.
I remember the first time I saw sports come into conflict with church services. I was a pastor of a very small Assembly of God church. The service was very near its end, as it was approaching noon, but I had not yet prayed to close the service. Suddenly two families got up from the back row, waved sheepishly at me, and rushed out the door. Today, in most mega-churches they would hardly be noticed. But in a congregation of 20 or 25 people, six is a mass exodus. I was hurt. I was offended. I later...
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I lived in texas, worked with texans, did business, personal, and public, doesn’t really matter what your experience is, this is my experience. If you choose to believe the “There is no place better than texas” propaganda, feel free. They smell money and their loyalty to relationships when money is involved is about 1/4 inch deep. I watched texans screw over life long friends, over and over, and justified it with a pass off remark...” Well business is business”
This is one thing I really admire about Mormons (and I am not one BTW), that so many of them take the concept of Sunday as a day of rest and not just another day seriously. In fact, I’ve read that BYU will not play games on Sunday under any circumstances, even if it costs them a chance at a championship.
If the NFL finds out about Souper Sunday, they will file an injunction against the church. They’ve gotten a lot of cease and desist orders against churches holding Super Bowl parties.
I’m from Texas.
Please explain to me what mystical transformation takes place at the Red River and other Texas state borders that makes we Texans such scoundrels and different from those righteous citizens of Oklahoma, Lousiana, New Mexico, etc.?
I could say the same thing about people from anywhere, or any race for that matter. To associate it with a certain part of the US is prejudicial.
Well I have lived, worshiped and done business all over the country. I have naturally seen patterns of appearances are everything, materialism, and unethical business practices, enough to draw pretty clear conclusions.
I’m sure you are a lovely person and do not practice such things, but there are certain qualities in every culture that re-produces similar expectations.
And when I do say something negative about texas, this is the hypersensitive reaction I get. texas pride,? dunno, never made sense to me. texans tend to believe their own press, and mythology. Where am I from? texas
What are the qualities in the culture of Texas that reproduces such things?
Conversely, is there a state whose culture produces virtue?
“And when I do say something negative about texas, this is the hypersensitive reaction I get. texas pride,? dunno, never made sense to me. texans tend to believe their own press, and mythology. Where am I from? texas”
You didn’t say anything negative about a piece of ground. You said something negative about me, my wife, my daughters, my neighbors, my co-workers. A piece of ground doesn’t cheat in business. People cheat. You called me a cheat. Yes, I am offended.
You believe I was referring to the dirt you walk on? Hey if you cheat, then you cheat. I just find a higher concentration of that behavior in Texas. People are offended all the time, its my observation and Im okay if its offensive.
Try reading my post again. You ascribe moral conduct to a geographic location. I am in that location. You ascribe immoral conduct to me. You are wrong.
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