NEWS AND VIEWS
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PLAYER PROFILE
 Name:
Aaron Barry (no nickname)
Sport(s): rugby, football, cricket, volleyball
Standard: school standard for
rugby, play for my church team in football and cricket, play
volleyball for fun.
Story: The sports I play
can be very physically demanding and can get violent sometimes. The
way I represent Christ is by playing within |
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BIBLE BIT
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Hi Friends,
Today is ‘Good Friday’. For the first 20
years of my life I never really grasped it!
I couldn’t understand why Christians around
the world insisted on calling this
particular day ‘good’. For it is the day
that Christians celebrate the death of
Jesus!
Let me ask you a question – When was the
last time you celebrated someone’s death? A
stupid question that we cant really answer
except perhaps in extreme circumstances when
we talk about an evil dictator of a country
finally coming to the end of his rule, but
this is far different!
Jesus was the ‘God man’. In his very being
he was good. He cared for the poor, he
healed the sick, he preached about a message
of good news to all people. So why would
anyone talk about His death as a good
thing?? Why?
There’s one verse in the bible that can
answer that question…
2 Corinthians 5v21
‘God made him who had
no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we
might become the righteousness of God’
Why is ‘Good Friday’ a good thing?
Because it’s good news for us. Something
happened to Jesus instead of happening to
me. A great substitution took place.
The one, who had no sin, became like me – a
sinful man, to take my place and suffer the
punishment I deserve. And what a punishment
it was – the most horrendous death a man
could die! I should stand in front of God
and be punished for constantly turning my
back on him, yet if I believe in Jesus, he
becomes my sin and takes my punishment!
So what becomes of me?
I become the ‘righteousness of God’ – simply
means I stand before God as a man who
appears to have no sin, because Jesus has
taken it and that’s why ‘Good Friday’ is
called ‘good’ I get to have free passage
back to God – forever!
It’s the greatest day in the World!
Are you a Christian this morning? -
Celebrate Good Friday with every ounce of
energy you have, whether playing sport or
not!
Are you unsure about what Jesus has done? –
What about taking a bit of time out this
morning to investigate it further. Check out
the ‘Why
Jesus’ web pages
Happy Easter!
From all the Youth Department
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the rules and trying to
avoid fights on the pitch that may erupt or even pulling players
from my team out of the fights to stop them getting too violent.
Also, I represent Christ by being willing to do whatever my
coach/captain wants me to do instead of arguing that I am in the
wrong position or play better somewhere else. I find this helps me
represent Christ because Jesus did not say no or was reluctant to do
God's will when he was dying on the cross, he did it with no
complaints. Although I'm not the perfect person and do get a bit hot
under the collar sometimes, it helps to know that Jesus died for me
with no fuss and did not get angry when taunted so I think that we
should all live like that to represent Christ in our sports. |
