With so many of life's activities you have players and spectators. In classical music you have the orchestra and soloist playing to an audience. In sport you have the footballers and their spectators. In athletics you have the famous athletes and their crowd of supporters. In the church you have the minister with a watching congregation????? Now just a minute that should not be the case. All the church people are members of the body of Christ. Paul likens us to athletes who give up all the things in our lives that stop us running the race. There is no place in the church for spectators. Athletes train hard and long with their mind only on winning the race. Christians should spend their lives doing all they can to please Jesus.This will include caring for one another and helping one another to get closer to our Lord. Stop spectating and get on with the job in hand.
I have written in previous posts about disasters. In the case of Concorde, decisions by people, plus other factors were directly to blame for the event. In the case of the Penlee disaster it may have been avoided if someone had made a better choice in the time beforehand and as a consequence brave men and the ship's crew and the captain and his family died. 9/11 was certainly the result of wicked men committing a terrorist act, but even in this there was heroism notably by another Cornish man, Rick Rescorla who helped many to safety and left it too late to help himself. In situations like this we see what the human spirit is capable of both good and evil. What of disasters that come on people because of the earth restless movement of tectonic plates. Often people live near volcanoes because the land is rich and fertile and they have the chance of a better life there when the volcano is resting. We cannot blame them for that but sometimes people become complacent...
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