Put me in coach

Jana and I were talking the other day about our oldest son (6 years old) who is playing on two football teams. He started out by signing up on a flag football team through the school that he attends, but Colton, who is our very physical child, didn't seem to get into it. Then one of his coaches from his All-star baseball team called and asked if Colton could play on his tackle football team in a league at another school. We said yes (crazy on our part). Colton has come alive. He is eating up the tackle football. He is in on about 90% of tackles. Oh yea!!!

Jana and I were talking about the comparison between flag and tackle. Flag is fun because it has all the thrill and feel of football, but it is not football. To really learn the game you have to get suited up and take some hits...or give them.

We talked about how so often we want to play a flag version of Christianity. They want the feel and thrill of knowing that God loves us and that he is there, but we do not want to "suit up" and do the harder version of living of as a Christ follower. We want to avoid the sacrifice and hard choices and instead pick and choose what we like about Christianity. This has caused us to be self-searching, I hope it will be for you.