|
Tab Menu 1
| Fellowship Hall The place to go for Fellowship & Fun! |
 |
|
07-26-2007, 12:02 PM
|
 |
His Eminance, High Potatohead Potatotate
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Stockton, California
Posts: 5,376
|
|
|
Back to the thread..
Good Thoughts PP...
|
07-26-2007, 12:04 PM
|
|
Guest
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: H-Town, Texas
Posts: 18,009
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by revrandy
Back to the thread..
Good Thoughts PP...
|
Sports is just a microcosm of society ... unless you are the Cincinnati Bengals ...
|
07-26-2007, 12:08 PM
|
|
Registered Member
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: AZ
Posts: 16,746
|
|
|
And of course you have not seen true sports until you've seen it in HD!
|
07-26-2007, 12:20 PM
|
|
Registered Member
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 1,016
|
|
|
The culture of athletics is antithetical in many ways to the value system i want to teach my children.
Many coaches demand a degree of loyalty that I am not willing for my kids to give an unbeliever whose priorities are not in sync with ours.
Discipline, teamwork, etc. are good things for sure, but there are ways to teach them that don't carry the baggage that sports does.
Furthermore, I know far too many middle-aged men who have physical problems from their days in high school sports to want my kids involved, if for no other reason than that.
Sports takes an incredible amount of time and energy, and doesn't give much back.
It is a poor investment for my family.
__________________
"Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:
And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel."
--Amos 7:14-15
|
07-26-2007, 12:27 PM
|
|
Registered Member
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: AZ
Posts: 16,746
|
|
|
Good post Amos.
You actually brought up some good secular arguments for not participating in sports and they are valid.
However as far as not wanting your kids to give loyalty to their coach because he is an unbeliever, can I assume that you feel this is different then giving loyalty to their boss or their employer?
Again, good post. I love sports myself but you defined very nicely why you don't want yourself or your family to participate.
|
07-26-2007, 12:29 PM
|
 |
Hello AFF!
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Amarillo, Tx.
Posts: 3,611
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by revrandy
So you are judging all sports by the actions of a few?
|
They need more Christians and just good people in sports.
|
07-26-2007, 12:30 PM
|
|
His Eminance, High Potatohead Potatotate
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Stockton, California
Posts: 5,376
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Amos
The culture of athletics is antithetical in many ways to the value system i want to teach my children.
Many coaches demand a degree of loyalty that I am not willing for my kids to give an unbeliever whose priorities are not in sync with ours.
Discipline, teamwork, etc. are good things for sure, but there are ways to teach them that don't carry the baggage that sports does.
Furthermore, I know far too many middle-aged men who have physical problems from their days in high school sports to want my kids involved, if for no other reason than that.
Sports takes an incredible amount of time and energy, and doesn't give much back.
It is a poor investment for my family.
|
Are you against your children joining the Military Services then?
|
07-26-2007, 12:33 PM
|
|
His Eminance, High Potatohead Potatotate
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Stockton, California
Posts: 5,376
|
|
|
Here's something I don't understand...
How can you be against Sports and keep up with it at the same time?
How can you be against Sports and play in an organized Golf Tournament?
|
07-26-2007, 12:36 PM
|
 |
Registered Member
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Louisiana
Posts: 5,529
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by revrandy
Here's something I don't understand...
How can you be against Sports and keep up with it at the same time?
How can you be against Sports and play in an organized Golf Tournament?
|
Easy there my friend.......don't go treading into double standard land.....it's a mine field wrought with danger.......... 
__________________
Psa 119:165 (KJV) 165 Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.
"Do not believe everthing you read on the internet" - Abe Lincoln
|
07-26-2007, 12:43 PM
|
|
Registered Member
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 1,016
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by revrandy
Are you against your children joining the Military Services then?
|
I have advised my children against joining the military.
As an American, I have tremendous respect and appreciation for our soldiers.
But as a citizen of the Kingdom of Heaven, I have a higher loyalty.
I am raising my children to also have that same loyalty.
__________________
"Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:
And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel."
--Amos 7:14-15
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
|
|
All times are GMT -6. The time now is 11:09 AM.
| |
Linear Mode
