Your City

So when I was in High School and in Jr. High I was all about the school I went to. You know you have a certain amount of pride. I was always on sports teams and stuff and so you get to wear your jersey… you have your school’s logo on your back and there is a sense of pride that goes along with that, especially when you get to high school. I brought my letterman’s jacket with me tonight and this was my high school, I was an Atwater High School Falcon. I bled blue and white for 4 years, if I went to a football game there I would sit on our teams side. I have friends that I graduated with who are now teachers and coaches at Atwater. When I graduated I coached water polo there for two years, I loved everything about my high school.

When I was a senior in high school my friend and I led the student section at all of the games, specifically basketball. Now we really enjoyed doing this at the basketball games because you could yell at the other team’s fans and make fun of them and what not. We wanted to assert our dominance over the other school, because we were Atwater High, we stood for our school and we would stop at nothing to preserve our precious name, to promote our school at all costs, because we loved our school and who we were.

Now Jesus said in Matthew 28, “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in[a] the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."

Just like my love of Atwater high school your desire should be to make disciples of those that are around you and near you, you should love your city, you should love the people in your city so much that you would want to make it hard for people in your city to go to hell. I mean that is our goal as Christians right, to make it hard for people to go to hell?