In high school football was a big deal. Either you played on the team or you were in the student section at every game. I spent senior year in the student section cheering. Our school had a bunch of random cheers we did, and when I say we did I mean every one did. Everyone in the student section did the same cheers at the same time. One of them was one where we all moved in unison. We would say “Lean to the left, lean to the right. Stand up, sit down, fight fight fight!” As you could probably guess, we did all the motions as we said them. If you think about it, most cheers are mindless. I mean you just memories the right words to say and remember when to do the actions and then you have done your job. You don’t have to even have emotion for the game. As long as you say it you feel like you have done your part. I mean I stood with a bunch of girls who never watched the games, but they did the cheers, and my question is……is this what church is becoming?
Most of the problems that I hear people having in a church now a days is that some one is messing with their traditions. They want to stand up and sit down four times a service. They want to say the same phrase after every verse is read. They want there pastor wearing a tie and a robe, and if one of these doesn’t happen their church experience is ruined. Now don’t get me wrong, traditions are not all bad, as long as when they are performed it is heart felt. But tradition for tradition sake is pointless. Going threw the motions in our faith is pointless. God see’s our heart and knows what’s going on. We can’t just do things to make us look good and think that is what it is to be a Christian. We have to break out of that faith coma and become alive in the way we attend church and live our lives
If we are going to go to the game and do the cheers then we have to mean it. Other wise it is pointless.
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