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Sports Vs. Sabbath - Page 4

OK, I got a new angle on this. Yesterday, the High Priest Group Leader and myself went around and visited several less active and or new move ins to get to know them better, invite them to church etc. One of the homes we went to is an elderly couple, moved in a few months ago that we just discovered are members of the church, albeit completely inactive for more than 10 years. They invited us in and said we were very welcome as long as we didnt mind watching the baseball game with them. We didn't mind, so we watched the game a little and conversed between pitches. So now, I am thinking.....whenever there is a big game I want to watch I can go visit an inactive member, preferably one who is a sports fan and I'll be magnifying my church calling, as well as catching the game.

Sabbath Vs Sports

Was this a bit of humor or is there something of substance in what you are saying... or in other words... what is the point? I must have missed something.

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Well, the point I am making is we all agree there are things we should do on the Sabbath and things we should avoid. I thought it was a little ironic that the two came together. Going out, ministering to those in need, inviting the elderly and the less active to return to Christ was our purpose yesterday. In order to accomplish this, we had to watch a little sports on Sunday, the very topic of this thread and the subject which some feel is not an ideal Sunday activity.

Now, we could have told this couple, well it is the Sabbath and we don't believe in watching sports on Sunday but we would like you to come to church next week. That would be a holier than thou attitude and would accomplish nothing. Instead, we were able to get to know a very good couple, assign them some home teachers and had a very good, uplifting visit.

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Actually, when I first read it, I was thinking if you know it is going to be like that beforehand then why not home teach on another day other than Sunday, and even probably a day that a major sports event will not be on so you can get more of their attention. Now if you entered a home for the first time and that is the way they want it then - so be it, but now knowing this you can plan for it.

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Gaucho let me put it this way, if you go next time and visit them and this time they tell you, you can come in as long as you join them with a couple of beers, would you drink it?.

Sports Vs. Sabbath

Now that's not fair. I don't think that is a good comparison. I would'nt drink the beer, but if they wanted to share some Yerba Mate with me, that would be fine.

Sports Vs. Sabbath - Page 4

I believe LDS' point is that just because you go into a home to home teach does not mean that you have to / or should I say 'give-in' to what they deem as correct. Of course in this topic it would also have to do with if you personally feel if what they are saying you would have to do to get their attention is also correct. My personal view is that I find unique ways to deal with unique people. Keeping the Sabbath holy is a challenge in a world that does not know what it is, so to share in the benefits one would have to show in dynamic ways what the blessings derived are.

Sports Vs. Sabbath Mormon Doctrine Studies - Page 4

Gaucho, in your intro post you say that you are a returned Missionary. When you went into peoples home, members and non-members alike, and they had a radio, stereo or tv playing, did you not ask them to either turn them way down or to turn them off? It is the same thing when you go and do your Home Teaching. If, after you request that they turn it down or off and they refuse and you do not leave, then you have just showed them that your commitment to your faith is not very strong.

Somewhere I read about a member father who went to eat at a non-member's home. His daughter and the daughter of the host were playmates. The host only had tea (Could have been wine or coffee) to drink, and the member father went ahead and drank it. He didn't want to insult his host by not drinking it. Also he was in a foreign country and he really didn't want to insult this man.

Afterwards, the host told his own daughter that he thought less of the man because he did not stand up for his own beliefs.

Quite often it is the small things that we do, or in this case, do not do that make the biggest impression.