Sep
8
Posters on the Wall
Filed Under Life
[This post was inspired by a line Pastor Rob said during his sermon this past weekend at Apex Church.]
As a child, I had many posters splattered all over my walls. Posters and newspapper clippings (I was a slightly obessesed fan of the Minnesota Golden Gopher’s men’s basketball team and about every Park High School sport). I had photos of sweet dunks, great defensive stances and eye-catching headlines. But of all of these posters and clippings, not one was of a coach or a general manager or the team manager. They were always of players – always of those on the court or the field or the track doing something. Coaches, GMs or managers are those who support or direct others. No one has posters of them on the walls…we want posters of people doing something amazing.
Too often in our lives, we settle for being coaches or GMs. We support those going out, but rarely do we go out ourselves. As Christians, we are called to go. Robert E. Coleman in his book, The Master Plan of Evangelism states, “We fail, not because we do not try to do something, but because we let our little efforts become an excuse for not doing more.” We don’t all need to go to a third-world country and live in rags to share the Gospel with people whose language we don’t even speak. There are our neighbors, co-workers, people we interact with every day who have never heard the Good News. There are little things we can do to ignite a small fire for Christ. Are we going to continue to be coaches or will we step out and be a do-er?