May 3, 2025

After swimming, I went to the locker room to grab my shampoo to take a shower. While I was unlocking the combination to my locker, I heard two men on the other side talking to each other. Apparently, they didn’t know each other too well, but one common theme brought them together in a passionate dialogue, basketball. One was a young Afro-American in his 20s and the other was a Caucasian American in his 60s. They started talking about the Bucks playoff game from the night before where the Bucks lost to the Pacers. They were trying to analyze the game to see why they lost. They were getting excited and their voices got louder (not in an argument, just passionate). 

I went to go take a shower, and when I came back, they were still talking about basketball. In fact, another older man joined in the conversation. This man grew up watching Wilt Chamberlain and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Talk about the generational difference and the cultural difference! As I heard these men passionately talking to each other about basketball, I wondered to myself, what if that passionate conversation was about Jesus or the Bible, that would have been really cool.

It would be an amazing intergenerational experience for us to see different generations and cultures come together and talk about Jesus and ministry in church. Maybe talk about the Bible verses they read this past week, or talk about the people they prayed for this week, or brainstorm for ministry ideas they can do for the community. Paul said in Colossians 3:2, “Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.” We tend to talk about what occupies our mind. If our mind is set on godly things, that is what will draw our conversations. I pray that we will always think about God and His Word and that becomes the center of our interactions with one another in church and in the community. 

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