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Prophets on the Field of Play

I wrote an article for Western Friend: https://westernfriend.org/article/prophets-field-play

It's about my experiences as a sporting official and what I've learned from them. Before you figure that sport and competition aren't part of your life, check out these passages:

....printed rules are just a starting point. Each sport has its own web of tradition and culture that undergirds those rules.....Friends hang together, accept grace and share meals, worship, discuss, dispute, and resolve issues. Through these processes – more than by having and reading certain books – we grow together into a religious society.

....As important as calm awareness of all that is happening .... may be, I have also discovered a hindrance for me in that mindset. I can get so caught up in noticing all things that I lose the decisive attitude I need ....The need for decisiveness challenges me, even as I know it is required. Without a proactive official, players learn they can take advantage of the situation.

....wherever we face adversity – effort and commitment typically draw out our best selves. Adversity can also help us to realize the presence of Christ within us as a motivating force for good. Just as the spirit of the game needs officials to defend it, the spirit of our time needs prophets and prayer leaders.

For what they're worth, read some more words through the link. I'll be interested in supportive and intelligible comments.

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Comment by Kirby Urner on 2nd mo. 22, 2017 at 7:13pm: Deprived of the Old Testament "God's eye view" that gives us God's perspective, we're thrown back more on our own devices with the present day prophets. Is Richard Stallman correct that GPLv3 is the way to go? Linus Torvalds, another prophet, says it's not suitable for Linux, a great gift of the Holy Spirit. I have no Bible to tell me the answer.

Likewise ordinary onlookers in those Biblical days would've seen some amazing melodrama, with the altar splitting open, smoldering, as Prophet A shouted words of warning at the president. Then hours later, Prophet B is burying Prophet A in his family sepulcher, amidst talk of some lion.

What on earth is going on?

With no Bible yet, to explain, they'd fall back on sheer speculation. That's how it's like for us. Rumors abound. Fake news is everywhere.

Comment by James C Schultz on 2nd mo. 25, 2017 at 10:26pm: I beg to differ. It's all there. Sometimes in code and sometimes in plain sight. Check out Revelations 12 and then google Sept. 23/Revelations 12. You'll love it. The Late Great Planet Earth was the first popular book to try to decode the Book of Revelations in terms of the present day (the present day 40 to 50 years ago that is).

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