On The Run

Our friends at Nike sponsored a 10K road race this morning in Lima. While the race did not pass directly in front of the cinema where we hold Flamingo Road Church services every Sunday morning, it did pass by close enough, so close in fact that many of the streets surrounding the cinema were closed off for the benefit of the hundreds of runners. This meant that there was scant public or private transportation around the cinema. This meant that many people arrived very late for the services. This also meant that many others never arrived at all. We know. We got lots of irate cell phone calls from our people stranded on the other side of Lima.

Now, I know what Paul says in 1 Corinthians 9:24 about running a race so as to get the prize. But I don't think that Paul was lacing up a pair of Nikes when he wrote that. In fact, if I had to revise Paul's words a bit in 1 Corinthians 9:24 - let's call it the New International Steve Guschov Lima Version - then I think it might read something like this:

"Do you not know that in the Lima Nike 10K Race all the Nike-clad runners run, but only one gets to pop the cork off of the Inka Cola bottle? Run the Lima 10K in such a way as to get the prize, but don't block the streets around FRC-Lima while you're doing it!"