Every World Cup is about much more than goals and results. That Iceland, for example, are there at all I noted in an earlier blog is an amazing achievement.
Then there's Japan. They have become famous in this tournament not for the players but for their fans. Not for their fans during the game either. But because (and difficult to imagine how counter cultural this is to me, and English football supporter) after their first game their fans were filmed cleaning up their litter before they left the stadium.
Bluntly, when English fans go to a tournament we are grateful if all of them have left the seats fixed in place.
If goodness is a powerful cultural weapon in a football tournament, how much more true are the words of the apostle Peter regarding goodness as a powerful weapon for the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ:
Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul. Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.
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