It is time to get back to some serious practice!

Kids, coaches, and parents alike are getting back into the swing of things as school has begun.  New schedules and routines with classes, homework, and all of the sports and extracurricular activities get going.  Actually for a lot of our youth and families, there were the practices before the practices – the infamous Captian’s practice!  Football, cheerleading, dance squad, and marching band started practicing before the regular practices began.  On lesson to learn, is that you can never get in enough practice!

But what about the practices of faith?

I’ve been wondering where we developed the idea that showing up to practice our faith for an hour, maybe two or three a week, (at the most, I mean, let’s be reasonable here!), was sufficient to grow and develop our faith and relationship to God through Jesus Christ?  Added to the problem is that we just need to show up.  We don’t have to be focused, engaged, or do anything to practice our faith.  Can you imagine what would happen if the star quarterback of the football team just showed up to practice, but didn’t actually practice?  “Hey, I showed up!  What more do you want?” 

The Good News about practices…

Jesus Christ always takes us back and has a place for us on his team.  Not only that, but no matter how little or how much practice you’ve had in this thing we call the life of faith (a.k.a. discipleship), we are never done practicing, learning, and growing.  So, whether you’ve been practicing all summer, or have taken some time off, welcome to the on-going practice of the faith going on here at Christus Victor, and at a church near you!