This is the second sermon in a series on The Embracing Church
“Okay, guys. It’s time to choose sides…”
Those words are part of a ritual that has been a part of our lives almost from the beginning. It is a ritual that has been seen again and again in countless gyms, on schoolyards, and pretty much any place where kids gather to play. And, even though it seems like simply a way to decide who will be on what team, there is an order to how things are done, a way of doing things that rarely changes, no matter where we are.
It begins with the captains, the people who get to choose. With few exceptions, the captains tend to be the most popular and the most vocal of the group. They may not be the best players of the game, but they are the ones who talk themselves up the most and generally they are the best liked kids around, and the ones who pretty much determine what is cool and what isn’t.
Then comes the choosing, a ritual with rules that seem to have been around since God created the heavens and the earth.
