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It is often said that there is nothing like a major sporting event on a Sunday to separate the sheep from the goats. On Super Bowl Sunday, church attendance drops as people reveal who their God is.

In England, it’s not much different, except it is soccer that has long been an idol, and today in Manchester, England, I had the displeasure of hearing hundreds of Manchester United soccer fans chanting:

“What a friend we have in Jesus,” and then they continued “and his name is Cantona.” (an ex-player)

Hearing hundreds boldly blaspheming Christ on the streets where I live broke my heart, but when I realised on match day’s there are up to 76,000 people in a stadium doing this, it was crushing.

But another thing struck my mind. Whilst I expect unbelievers to act like unbelievers. Why is it that when I heard just a few hundred fans singing blasphemies I found it heart breaking. Yet there are many professing Christians who pay a fortune to listen to that, and more, each week with their children, and do not seem in the least bit disturbed by it?

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