Well, Richt's motivational celebration order worked last Saturday, as his dawgs entered The Swamp and had a gator feast. 42-30 is certainly more exciting to watch (if you're a Georgia fan) than the 31-14 Mississippi State upset of Kentucky (if you're a Kentucky fan) last Saturday. I'm both ... at least I'm becoming both. 
1200 pages of reading per class in grad school (I took at least 3 classes, sometimes four per semester) was not exactly condusive to the college football junkie lifestyle. College was not much better ... that is if I wanted to make good grades. However, now I'm out of school with some time on my hands. I've decided to jump into the college football scene.
A man asked me today if I was Georgia fan or was I simply wearing the hat. You know, I had to think about that one. Two weeks ago, someone noticed my Georgia hat and asked me who they were playing that day. I didn't know. Some fan, huh? I think it's more accurate to say that I'm "becoming" a fan. I certainly do enjoy the games.
Though seeing every team I pull for while watching them on TV lose is getting pretty annoying. It's crazy! I watched Kentucky lose to Florida two Saturdays ago. Yet while traveling on the road and unable to watch any games, both Kentucky and Georgia had victories. Kentucky beat LSU of all people!!! I was out in the yard most of this past Saturday and also involved in a church social that evening--which meant I wasn't watching TV. Georgia rolls over Florida. However, that night I was watching the South Carolina--Tennessee game with a friend later that evening. South Carolina loses! I watched Georgia get steam-rolled by Tennessee and Kentucky get crunched by Florida on the same day. Watching Kentucky beat themselves in the South Carolina game was depressing. Hey a "becoming" fan could get a complex!
(I guess I should mention that I did see LSU beat Florida, Auburn beat Florida, and Georgia beat Alabama. But this tidbit of information would rain out my pity party!)
I'm having a great time "becoming" a college football fan. I'm also loving the process of "becoming" something else. Paul writes "For our sake he (God) made him (Jesus) to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God" (II Corinthians 5:21, ESV). Wow, that is App-State-beating-Michigan-at-Michigan huge! Such an approach to Christianity is holistic, involving every aspect of my life becoming the righteousness of God. Every aspect of my life including my work life, sex life, diaper-changing life, apologizing to my wife life, etc. is to be becoming the righteousness of God. This is also huge, considering that I should have wound up institutionalized, either in the penal system or the state hospital system. This also means I need other believers and other believers need me!
The Christianity I grew up with was simply signing on the divine dotted line, God sending in his angels for a celebration on the field (like Richt's dawgs), and simply waiting for the hear-after. Yet, such traditional Southern Christianity (southern U.S.) is boring!!!!!!!!! God intends so much more. The "becoming" type of Christianity involves becoming personally involved in the lives others (who may not look, think, smell, or act like me) and helping them to become the righteousness of God. Such a "becoming" type of Christianity is certainly messy, but it's so much more exciting!
A man asked me today if I was Georgia fan or was I simply wearing the hat. You know, I had to think about that one. Two weeks ago, someone noticed my Georgia hat and asked me who they were playing that day. I didn't know. Some fan, huh? I think it's more accurate to say that I'm "becoming" a fan. I certainly do enjoy the games.
Though seeing every team I pull for while watching them on TV lose is getting pretty annoying. It's crazy! I watched Kentucky lose to Florida two Saturdays ago. Yet while traveling on the road and unable to watch any games, both Kentucky and Georgia had victories. Kentucky beat LSU of all people!!! I was out in the yard most of this past Saturday and also involved in a church social that evening--which meant I wasn't watching TV. Georgia rolls over Florida. However, that night I was watching the South Carolina--Tennessee game with a friend later that evening. South Carolina loses! I watched Georgia get steam-rolled by Tennessee and Kentucky get crunched by Florida on the same day. Watching Kentucky beat themselves in the South Carolina game was depressing. Hey a "becoming" fan could get a complex!
(I guess I should mention that I did see LSU beat Florida, Auburn beat Florida, and Georgia beat Alabama. But this tidbit of information would rain out my pity party!)
I'm having a great time "becoming" a college football fan. I'm also loving the process of "becoming" something else. Paul writes "For our sake he (God) made him (Jesus) to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God" (II Corinthians 5:21, ESV). Wow, that is App-State-beating-Michigan-at-Michigan huge! Such an approach to Christianity is holistic, involving every aspect of my life becoming the righteousness of God. Every aspect of my life including my work life, sex life, diaper-changing life, apologizing to my wife life, etc. is to be becoming the righteousness of God. This is also huge, considering that I should have wound up institutionalized, either in the penal system or the state hospital system. This also means I need other believers and other believers need me!The Christianity I grew up with was simply signing on the divine dotted line, God sending in his angels for a celebration on the field (like Richt's dawgs), and simply waiting for the hear-after. Yet, such traditional Southern Christianity (southern U.S.) is boring!!!!!!!!! God intends so much more. The "becoming" type of Christianity involves becoming personally involved in the lives others (who may not look, think, smell, or act like me) and helping them to become the righteousness of God. Such a "becoming" type of Christianity is certainly messy, but it's so much more exciting!
Team logos are from the website: http://www.secsports.com/index.php?s=&change_well_id=2&url_article_id=7827.
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