A Christian Perspective on Sports by Doug Webster

| Posted By Charles Gaston

…The first words aired on ESPN were, “If you love sports, if you really love sports, you’ll think you died and gone to heaven.” A new priesthood of sportscasters explores every imaginable dimension of the game for one hundred million households that can never get enough of their beloved sports. On the surface, spectator sports should be just an innocent pastime, a fun escape to distract us from life’s routine. But if we drill down a little deeper, we’ll realize that sports may be having a huge impact on how we think and live…

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