The Game of Life is one of the oldest board games that is still being produced AND it seems to get a facelift every so many years. One of the changes that has interested me the most was an addition to the 1991 version of the game, where you could now be rewarded for good behavior.
For the month of August we are entering into this sermon series about how we can use things like board games to connect folks to the message of the Gospel, but this first one, the Game of Life, speaks a lot more to the difference between the goal of the board game and the goal of our life as disciples of Jesus Christ.
Except, there are times that we act as Christians like we want everything that the world has to offer, but put a thin glaze of Jesus on top of it. We want the wealth and power and recognition, but try to put Gospel language over top of it to justify our choices. Only its really hard to do that, because it's not the heart of the Gospel message.
Or we try to take things out of context, showing that you can work your way into heaven (sounds like that 1991 version of the game, doesn't it?) but that's missing the point to.
What this week has left asking us, is what the purpose of life according to the Gospel? How are we to live the life we are given in order to reflect the truth and love of Christ? What are we to do with the gift of life that we have been given?
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