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F&F

Posted on 20th May 2012 by Stef Dnistrianskyj in Blog

Football and Facebook.  Both begin with f and have eight letters. You can now get shares in either of them. Both have fans, both have their own shunners. Both impinge on your life, directly or indirectly, no matter who you are.

The thing that most strikes me is that they are both social phenomena. I, who don’t watch football, follow the scores keenly, I want to know what’s going on. It matters to people I know and respect, so it matters to me. It is part of our glue.

Facebook I ventured into when I realised how useful it is for finding people. It enables you to see if old social glue is still effective and renewable. But then it becomes a place for new glue. Yes, people can become stuck to Facebook and Football themselves, not the people they share it with. I don’t think that is good. I don’t think it brings out the person in us.

Likewise another F, Faith. Faith is trust in God. If you were at the 10.30 today, it is getting in Jesus’ wheelbarrow.* To be effective, faith must be to do exercising the glue between you and God, not between you and religion.

So get stuck in!

 

*If you were not at the service, think of Blondin cr0ssing Niagara Falls on a tightrope with a wheelbarrow, and if you were prepared to say not only that you believed he could do it, but were willing to sit in the wheelbarrow.

2 comments on “F&F”

  1. Lilian says:
    20th May 2012 at 11:01 pm

    When I saw the F&F headline for this blog, I immediately thought of Florence and Fred, which is a Tesco brand of clothing 🙂 Not once did football enter my head and facebook probably wouldn’t have either if I hadn’t seen Mr Zuckerberg on TV celebrating his marriage….not to mention his new multi- billionnaire status 🙂
    Like Stef, I am not a football watcher, but I do like to know how the local teams are doing….by local I mean Blackpool, Man.City and Liverpool of course 🙂 When Peter was our Vicar I think we all knew about his support of Sunderland and offer sympathy or congratulations as appropriate 🙂
    I wasn’t at the 10.30 today, but from your comments I can answer like this….even if I thought Blondin could make that precarious crossing, I would certainly NOT be volunteering to sit in his wheelbarrow 🙂
    I trust God unconditionally though, and would sit in his wheelbarrow if that’s what he wanted me to do 🙂
    Lilian :-)xx

    • Stef says:
      20th May 2012 at 11:53 pm

      I think you would look very good in God’s wheelbarrow.

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