"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play…it is war minus the shooting."
Entertaining Strangers
"Do not forget to entertain strangers for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it" Hebrews 13:2
How do you react when a new person comes to your club? Do you see them as a threat to your position? Do you worry that they might proved better than you and take your place.
Tennis player Nduka Odizor, a quarter-finalist at Wimbledon in the early 1980s was about to play a match in a grass-court tournament in Holland when he noticed that his opponent was upset about something. Nduka said, "I overheard him say that he had been unable to get a pair of grass court shoes and as a result he was slipping all over the place. I offered to lend him a pair of mine. My opponent's face dropped in astonishment. He was probably thinking, 'How could anyone be so stupid?' It was written all over his face. 'Here's my hotel key,' I said, 'if you want to go and get them or send someone for them.' When our match was called there he was, wearing my shoes!"
How you react when someone new comes into your world can determine what they will think of Christ. A simple act of kindness can make a big impact