Yesterday I wrote about my experience at a UT football game last weekend. Here’s another observation.

I sat in a sea of Longhorn football fans thinking about what divides these people and what unites them. These folks are from every walk and background you can imagine. Politically they are all over the map. If you read bumper stickers in the parking lot you can find everything from flaming liberals to right wing neo-cons. They also cover almost every socio-economic group available. There are the unbelievably wealthy to the lower middle class. Obviously the poor aren’t there but I would guess a great many of those folks watched the national telecast. That leaves the homeless and my guess is they really don’t care about any sports of any kind. I’m convinced that every religious group was represented that day and they were all wearing burnt orange. I’m sure the anti-religious were also there to cheer on their team.

All this to say if these people can lay aside their differences and accept each other as part of a support system why can’t Christians. Maybe we Christians can learn something here. If we could major on what holds us together rather then what we disagree on maybe the world would see us differently.

Why is it the church tends to form a circle when called to form a fire line?

Don’t get me wrong. I’m all for serious bible study and a quest for the truth. I don’t buy into a you do your thing and I’ll do mine and we’ll all be o.k. Philosophy. I’m sure I study a lot more then most people. At the same time I want to draw all those who wear the name of Christ together. That doesn’t mean they have to agree with me on everything. It means we have to agree on Christ being the centerpiece. From that point we can work our way through anything. We might or might not agree on a lot of things but we have one thing that will keep us together.

If silly football fans can do it why can’t we who have been called to love each other as Christ loved us.