This past weekend it happened
again – we had a great weekend in four different languages! The church in
Schaffhausen, Switzerland organizes a soccer tournament for churches who want
to take part. This year Semiye Verheijen, Michaël Marx and Shirley and I went
from Maastricht. Don’t worry, Shirley did not play. But we all enjoyed the
fellowship enormously.
Imagine again (I know I have
talked about this weekend before) – when we play a ten minute game, we are
opponents. The ‘Pro’ teams are quite serious about winning (as are some of the
‘Fun’ teams). Our Belgium Pro team is made up of members and friends from all
over Belgium. Everyone on the team puts his/her best foot forward. Even in the
Fun games there is some serious play.
But Saturday evening we put
the balls away, set out some mats on the gym floor (this is an indoor
tournament) and we sing. And suddenly we are one. We sing in French, in German,
in English, but we sing together to praise God and thank Him for His goodness.
We may be from various different cities, different countries, different cultures,
but we praise God together. We come before our King as one family. We join together in worshipping Him,
because there is no other way to do it.
At the end of the singing, Luk
Brazle reminded us that we not only have voices to praise our King, but bodies
to worship Him as well. So we are encouraged, again, to be Christians,
followers of the Way, who are playing soccer, not soccer players who are
Christians. I love this emphasis and am so thankful that we have this kind of
opportunity to show our young people (and plenty of not-so-young folks as well)
how important and good it is to worship in all we do. It wasn't every nation and tongue yet, but it was a great taste!
Hope to have a link up soon to
some of the pictures from this year, so check back soon.
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