The Fan: A relationship with Jesus?
I don’t know what being a fan means to you but to me it means knowing the players, checking the box scores and stats, keeping an eye on the schedule, and going to the games or watching them on TV as often as possible. Fans love to talk about their team and they feel the losses and get joy and hope from the wins.
An over the top fan takes it another step. They dress the part, show up at every game and dress in their fan-ware (jerseys, head gear, pennants, pompoms and face paint). They tailgate but they don’t let the tailgating keep them from the game. Over the top fans raise the team flag in front of their house so that everyone in the neighborhood knows. They live and die with the team and when the season is over they long for the next to begin.
Are you a fan…an over the top fan?
Did you ever think of yourself as a fan of Jesus?
I suspect that some of you are thinking that the word “Fan” sort of trivializes the relationship you have with Jesus. It isn’t exactly a traditional picture of a disciple of Jesus. I can’t say that I ever heard someone in my very formal religious upbringing use the term Fan when talking about him. None of my seminary professors ever declared themselves fans or asked me if I was a fan…but then surprisingly being passionate about faith wasn’t exactly something that we talked about in those academic hallways.
Truth is, I am a fan of Jesus and enough of an over the top fan to end up a pastor. I’m a fan because I have encountered the living Lord in my life in powerful ways…transforming ways. And my hope for you, for all of the Joy! community and the people who live around us is that we would all be over the top fans.
– Pastor Scott
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