Football and Theology

I often say, "There's a lot of theology in football."  And I often use football analogies or references in my sermons.

And sometimes, while riding in the car to or from a meeting, or from a game, my fellow officials will ask me things about Christianity in general or my thoughts about something in particular.  Those are often interesting conversations.

The other day, though, I had something happen before a game that hasn't happened before.

My crew met in the parking lot of the school and we were chatting about stuff and putting on our shirts and various pieces of equipment (whistles, cards, pencils, flags, etc).  I caught just the tail-end of something someone said about the RCC.  I think it was something along the lines of him being a lapsed Catholic.

One of my crewmates piped up:  "Well, we all know that the Catholic church only follows man-made doctrines."

I said, "What?"

"It's true.  They only have man-made doctrines and don't follow God's doctrines."

"Every church follows man-made doctrines."

"Not every church."

"Name one."

"The Lutherans."

"Okayyyy . . . . let's talk about the game.  Who's got chains?"