Involved Vs. Committed

1 Corinthians 1:26-31 (Message)

Take a good look, friends, at who you were when you got called into this life. I don't see many of "the brightest and the best" among you, not many influential, not many from high-society families. Isn't it obvious that God deliberately chose men and women that the culture overlooks and exploits and abuses, chose these "nobodies" to expose the hollow pretensions of the "somebodies"? That makes it quite clear that none of you can get by with blowing your own horn before God. Everything that we have-right thinking and right living, a clean slate and a fresh start-comes from God by way of Jesus Christ. That's why we have the saying, "If you're going to blow a horn, blow a trumpet for God."

I love that passage from 1 Corinthians. I really like it in the message paraphrase. You get the impression that what Paul was saying, is that God took the leftovers so he could show off with us. That's pretty cool! Because, I am sure you like me, at times feel like you are "not so much". God says, "That's okay, you are just who I'm looking for!"

When the "down and out"...

When the "overlooked"...

When the "don't count for much"...

Finally make it, we all cheer.

I don't suppose I will ever get tire of watching this video. It is only two minutes, take the time to watch it again. I'm fairly confident you have seen it before:

Jason McElwain Autistic Basketball Player

That just never gets old to me. I love that line, "I was got hot, hot like a pistol".

Yes you were Jason. Yes, you were!

Jason understood what it meant to be a part of team, even if that meant being the team manager who fetched water and towels. But on that day, in that one moment he also because a part of the team by taking the shots and tying a school record. (How cool is that?)

You know as I watched that video I was reminded that there are at least three levels those surrounding the team: Spectators, Participants, and Committed.

Where are you on the team of faith? Where are you in the tension between involved and committed?

Jason was committed. What about you? The ball is being passed to you, what will you do with it?