FIFA World Cup: Are Clergy Men Setting God On A Collision Path?

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As Brazil 2014 FIFA World Cup has shown, the FIFA World Cup is a tournament like no other in the world of sports. Every four years it is held, billions of people around the world ranging from Asia to America to Europe to Africa tend to spend considerable amount of time watching this beautiful sport. These include young and old, men and women, employed and unemployed people. Some of these people watch the sport at the stadium, some watch it on television, and others listen to the sport on radio. 

Clergy men are not excluded from this show. They too enjoy watching the FIFA World Cup tournaments. I have no problems with clergy men who may like to watch the FIFA world cup. After all, they are humans like you and I. However, I began to question this my liberal view after my daughter told me how their church clergy tried to hijack the Brazil 2014 FIFA World Cup.

According to my daughter, the Pastor asked them to pray for the success of one of the teams participating at Brazil 2014 World Cup shortly before this team was due to meet with another team. You might think that there is nothing wrong in this request. However, if you look at this matter very carefully you will appreciate why the clergy was not right to do what he had done.

Some of the people whom the pastor had asked to pray for the success of his team at the 2014 FIFA World Cup, for example, may have been supporters of other teams. It is likely that these people may have silently prayed for the success of their favourite team rather than the pastor's favourite team.  Worse still, the church members may have grudgingly prayed for the success of the pastor’s team. These raise the possibility of people within the same church asking God to favour different teams at the Brazil 2014 FIFA World Cup at the same time.

In addition, it is inevitable that clergy men in other churches and countries may have also been praying to God to favour their team at the Brazil 2014 FIFA World Cup . This leads to questions such as whose prayer could God answer and is it possible for God to favour more than one team at the 2014 FIFA World Cup? 

Clergy men should please focus on their main duties and leave God out of the 2014 FIFA World Cup. They should preach the good news to people who have not accepted it. They should pray for the sick to get well, and provide food and shelter to the poor and needy in society. God is likely to listen to the prayers of clergy men who participate in these activities than the clergy men who try to create confusion and chaos for God at the FIFA World Cup.

When it comes to the FIFA World Cup, Clergy men should act in the same way as the British Monarch acts in British politics. The British Monarch may have her views on British politics but cannot express them in the public. Similarly, clergy men can have strong views and feelings about the FIFA World Cup but should not express them in the church. The likelihood that God will be set on a collision path over the FIFA World Cup will not arise if clergy men can adhere to this advice.

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