Baseball And Jesus

Read any Dave Burchett yet? You should. Here's a quote from a blog post on Mel Gibson's anti-semitism he did yesterday.

"A good friend of mine used to say, 'This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains.' Think about that for a while." --Nuke LaLoosh from the movie Bull Durham

Baseball can be a very complex game but, in it's essence, that quote is correct. Christianity is much the same. It is complex enough to take a lifetime to mature and develop. But Christianity is, in some ways, a very simple life. You trust Jesus, you follow Jesus, you abide in Jesus. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes there is a storm.

The guy is great with words (even though he puts an apostrophe in a possessive 'its') and makes excellent points. I highly recommend his book, When Bad Christians Happen to Good People. It'll wake you up!