Spectator Sport?

Someone once described a football game as twenty-two men on the field badly in need of rest being watched by seventy-two thousand people in the stands badly in need of exercise.

While football may be a spectator sport for most of us, Christianity certainly should never be. We must get involved in the action. God is the coach and he challenges us to get on the field and play the game.
We don't have to be the MVP, we just need to play the position God gives us. Everyone makes mistakes on the field. But God gives us the "grace" to make mistakes, while not losing sight of our goal.

There will be opposition, there will be progress and at other times we may lose ground. But we must never give up striving for the Goal God has for us.

Philip. 3:12-17
Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. [13] Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, [14] I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.