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Hi all. I was reading through some news articles and found one about Trump meeting with the leaders of various professional sports leagues. I'll paste the text relevant to my topic here:
Elsewhere I've suggested that perhaps the coronavirus is one semi-final attempt to get people thinking beyond their normal, day-to-day routines; to think about the purpose and value of their lives and where it's all ultimately leading; to question their pursuit of the daily grind, their dependence on materialism, and their seeming belief that money really is what makes the world go round.
As the article states, everyone wants things to go back to normal; going to sporting events, going to the movies, dinner dates, concerts, shopping, buying, selling, planting, building, marrying and giving in marriage, etc. All normal, everyday events and practices.
But notice just how similar this kind of thinking is to the criticisms Jesus made against Sodom and the people of Noah's day. He did not criticize them for sexual immorality (though certainly that sin was there). He did not criticize them for homosexuality (though that certainly was an issue). The reasons he gave for why God destroyed them were buying and selling, planting, building, marrying etc, and he said it would be much the same in the last days. (Luke 17:26-30)
It's not that these things are wrong in themselves, but rather that the people had stopped caring about what God wanted. They had become so wrapped up in their day to day affairs of business-as-usual that they no longer behaved, let alone considered God, in a way consistent with God's values. The video below illustrates these points in a pretty interesting way and I'd like to hear what others think.
“They want to get back. They gotta get back. They can't do this,” Trump said later Saturday at a media briefing. “Their sports weren't designed for it. The whole concept of our nation wasn't designed for it. We're gonna have to get back. We want to get back soon.”
If it’s possible, of course. If it’s safe. If it doesn’t undermine all the work and loss and sacrifice done so far.
And that’s the problem.
Everyone wants a return to normal. Trump isn't wrong. No one is wrong for wanting such things. Unfortunately, wanting it isn’t enough.
Professional sports aren’t just big business, with billions and billions in direct economic impact stretching across the country. They’re an important entertainment distraction for a public that with each day grows more isolated and more weary of the relentless battle we are dealing with.
Elsewhere I've suggested that perhaps the coronavirus is one semi-final attempt to get people thinking beyond their normal, day-to-day routines; to think about the purpose and value of their lives and where it's all ultimately leading; to question their pursuit of the daily grind, their dependence on materialism, and their seeming belief that money really is what makes the world go round.
As the article states, everyone wants things to go back to normal; going to sporting events, going to the movies, dinner dates, concerts, shopping, buying, selling, planting, building, marrying and giving in marriage, etc. All normal, everyday events and practices.
But notice just how similar this kind of thinking is to the criticisms Jesus made against Sodom and the people of Noah's day. He did not criticize them for sexual immorality (though certainly that sin was there). He did not criticize them for homosexuality (though that certainly was an issue). The reasons he gave for why God destroyed them were buying and selling, planting, building, marrying etc, and he said it would be much the same in the last days. (Luke 17:26-30)
It's not that these things are wrong in themselves, but rather that the people had stopped caring about what God wanted. They had become so wrapped up in their day to day affairs of business-as-usual that they no longer behaved, let alone considered God, in a way consistent with God's values. The video below illustrates these points in a pretty interesting way and I'd like to hear what others think.