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        <![CDATA[ One thing I always kept hearing during church services is someone saying, &quot;You&#39;ll get all excited at a football game and holler and yell, but you
won&#39;t ever get that excited in your Christian life!&quot; Or something like that. And it was always done to pump up the crowd during worship. Of course,
we&#39;d all start feeling guilty and start trying to get more excited and stuff. Usually it was a false excitement because really we were tired and were ready
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			<title><![CDATA[ Re: How can you be excited at a football game and not at church?  ]]></title>
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  <strong class="quote-title">Taco Fred wrote:</strong>
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  My pastor used to say this all the time. Then he would also add that we should not be watching ball games. Football is fun, church is not.
</blockquote>Yeah! 
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			<description><![CDATA[ If competition is sin, why does the Bible compare our Christian lives to a race and tell us to run to win the race? Our whole lives are filled with
competition. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. If someone is never exposed to competition they haven&#39;t learned how to lose yet. And if you
haven&#39;t learned how to lose gracefully and pick yourself up and try harder next time you&#39;re going to have a tough time in life. ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ <blockquote>
  <strong class="quote-title">tandc90 wrote:</strong>
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    <strong class="quote-title">bootsiebabe wrote:</strong>
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    We were taught that any sport that involved &quot;competition&quot; was sin.
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  As if pentecostalism isn&#39;t chock full of competition (snort).
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</blockquote>ROFL!
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  <strong class="quote-title">bootsiebabe wrote:</strong>
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  We were taught that any sport that involved &quot;competition&quot; was sin.
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As if pentecostalism isn&#39;t chock full of competition (snort).
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			<description><![CDATA[ We were taught that any sport that involved &quot;competition&quot; was sin. ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ My pastor used to say this all the time. Then he would also add that we should not be watching ball games. Football is fun, church is not. ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ Oh my gosh, I have heard this so many times I could scream! ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ Now that&#39;s not a bad idea!!! Some of those preachers might be a little easy to tackle -- too much fried chicken makes a slow pastor! ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ When they&#39;d say something like that I kept thinking, &quot;Ok, how about we give you a football and while you preach you have to run around while we chase
you and try to hit you.&quot; Now, THAT would be an exciting church service. And when the preacher got tackled, you handed the ball off to Sister-Big-Mouth and
chased her too. Also, we need to take the hot girls in the youth group and put them in short skirts while they dance around the church. Now, put all this
together and I bet your... ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ Can I get an amen for the beer and dogs? (Insert organ music and choir singing here).
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<img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y84/perzactozag/seriousLaugh.gif">
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Aw heck, here in the South you&#39;re not supposed to, but you can manage to sneak a flask into the game -- even better! ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ At least with football you get something for the money, you know people are there for a reason. You aren&#39;t being told to tap into some invisible thing. You
see teamwork instead of a talking head. There are clear rules that need to be followed by the teams. You are not chastised for cheering, and even better, you
are not chastised for NOT cheering. And no one criticizes you when you decide to stay home and watch the game on tv. Yes, the team gear is expensive, but you
aren&#39;t shamed... ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ Yes, I used to hear this a lot.  In fact, I probably echoed similar stuff over the years, along with statements such as &quot;I&#39;m not religious, I have a
faith&quot; and &quot;power is the birthright of the Christian.&quot;
<br>
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Can&#39;t believe I was into all that.  
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			<description><![CDATA[ I always, always wanted to say, &quot;Well, quite frankly, preacher, I enjoy football games way more than church.......... that&#39;s why!&quot; But I was a
good girl and didn&#39;t sass back. Much. ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ I heard this non-stop at my former AG church. What made the continued use of it annoying is where I live. I grew up and now reside across the river from St.
Louis. People in the St. Louis metro area worship at the church of the St. Louis Cardinals, Rams or Blues. People live and die with their teams. This analogy
became grotesque and over-used due to the repeated statement, &quot;If you were at Busch Stadium you would be screaming your lungs off but why won&#39;t you
give God just a little of... ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ Football games get people pumped up because of the competition and the excitement of winning (or disappointment of losing). I heard lots of Pentecostals use
the same line about getting excited in church like a football game, but I don&#39;t see the comparison. If I want to get excited, I&#39;ll do something
exciting, not go to church. Listening to some old man spit in my face screaming about adultery and sin and the evils of Secular Humanism while I&#39;m trying
not to get trampled by some... ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ <blockquote>
  <strong class="quote-title">RogerDodger wrote:</strong>
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  LOL I remember those days. GIVE ME A J ...........JAAAAAAAAAAAAA
  <br>
  GIVE ME AN E ...........EEEEEEEEEEEEE
  <br>
  &quot; &quot; &quot; S ...........SSSSSSSSSSSSSS
  <br>
  <br>
  GIVE ME A ..........WAY OUT OF HERE!!!!!
</blockquote>Yeah. That was how I felt about church, too. Then again, I am not a football fan, so I don&#39;t get very excited about football, either. But when
I do go, I get excited at... ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ You get beer at football games. <img src="http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/wink.gif">
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Hey, that&#39;s not a bad idea... get me 3-4 beers before church and I&#39;ll get rowdy for Jesus too! ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ LOL I remember those days. GIVE ME A J ...........JAAAAAAAAAAAAA
<br>
GIVE ME AN E ...........EEEEEEEEEEEEE
<br>
&quot; &quot; &quot; S ...........SSSSSSSSSSSSSS
<br>
<br>
GIVE ME A ..........WAY OUT OF HERE!!!!! ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ I&#39;ve heard similar comparisons and used to feel guilty that I wasn&#39;t nearly as excited about my christian life or church as I was a hobby. I suppose if
a football game or hobby was as DIFFICULT and filled with frustration as the christian walk then there&#39;d be a lot fewer people excited about it. The best
comparison would be comparing the christian life with the frustration your team losing all the time, for Pete&#39;s sake.
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On the other hand, if we could look into heaven... ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ Definitely. Also, lots of chastisements of people who stayed away from church to watch football games. ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ One thing I always kept hearing during church services is someone saying, &quot;You&#39;ll get all excited at a football game and holler and yell, but you
won&#39;t ever get that excited in your Christian life!&quot; Or something like that. And it was always done to pump up the crowd during worship. Of course,
we&#39;d all start feeling guilty and start trying to get more excited and stuff. Usually it was a false excitement because really we were tired and were ready
to sit down, but in order... ]]></description>

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