Just before I started my current walk, I saw a book in a local Christian bookstore that caught my eye: not a fan. by Kyle Idelman.

I will say, I never read the book. I did buy it and every time I saw it on my shelf, I thought to myself: I should read that.

It appealed to me because I was wondering: am I just a fan? Am I just a Christian because that was my “home team”? Am I truly following or do I just sit on the sidelines and root for Christian things? Am I a fan or am I a participant/player?

Before I ever read the book, the Father put me on this walk and showed me where I was failing. Maybe if I read it when I got it, He would have put me here sooner. IDK. But I do know, even with my volunteerism at my church and my tendencies to “defend the faith” (read argue) with others, I wasn’t a participant.

As of this writing, there are several sport type things going on. Many pastors will have sermons about how you’ll scream until you are blue in the face for your team, “but will you do that for God?”

I’m not worried about that. I want you to look at yourself and ask: why am I on this walk? Is it because everyone else is doing it? Because that is what I was taught growing up? Because of my social circle? Or because God is truly your first priority and you are doing everything for Him?

Mark 12:32-34 The scribe said to him, “Truly, teacher, you have said well that he is one, and there is none other but he, and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.” When Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, “You are not far from God’s Kingdom.” No one dared ask him any question after that.

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