Since it is Friday, I figured I would relate one of the Army's favorite end of week activities... The Safety Brief. As a Commander I would hold formation on Friday evenings and dispense of my awesome knowledge in the form of a safety brief. Basically the theme was always the same "don't do stupid stuff", which will then entail me going to the MP Station at 0200AM to go get you out of the hoosgow (sp?). Each week I would pick different stupid things to elaborate on, highlight incidents from the previous weekend, etc. Most weekends would pass uneventfully, but there those weekends when the inexplicable would happen and I would find myself in deep conversation with my very grumpy, recently awakened First Sergeant. Inevitably the infraction committed was the one I had chosen to elaborate on at the safety brief.
When things were going well I would relax and enjoy my weekend, but when we were closing in on a deployment or some serious field, time my weekend would be a mess of worry and waiting for that phone to ring. I would allow anticipation of a future event I could not control ruin my precious little free time with my family.
Sometimes I view Sunday Sermons as the Christian version of the Weekend Safety Brief. I go in on Sunday and get my dose of "don't do stupid stuff"(sin). When things are going well, I relax and enjoy the music, the message, and get my worship on. But, when things are not so good, when I have made the same boneheaded decision for the millionth time, I am a wreck and ruin my precious little dedicated time with God.
The problem is; Sunday worship isn't meant to be a Christian version of the safety brief, if anything it is quite the opposite. Our focus should be on how in spite of our "stupid stuff", God made a plan for salvation. It should be about renewing our connection with God, and spending some quality time in his presence. I think I need to focus more on that, and less on getting a fix of safety brief Sunday style.
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