Brotherhood (Written Aug 27 2010)

What is Brotherhood you may say, well I think its guys sticking up for each other even beyond the tough times.

1. Brotherhood of Gymnasts: I love Gymnastics and one thing I can say is although some people have put up a certain stereotype about the sport, I found that my fellow gymnasts have become pretty much family, yes at times we will tune each other at times but we stick up for each other when things go wrong.

2. Brotherhood of Skateboarders: This is an interesting one because like the Gymnastics scenario we all stick up for each other, Skateboarding also has received stereotypes and its one of "With Skaters come Alchohol and Drugs" which isnt true. In fact I remember years ago at New Life Church Skatepark with Marcus Maschwitz, Bradley Jones, Chase and a few of the Sonsk8 Edenvale crew and this guy who supposedly takes the money kept on incorporating his own rules instead of the pastors and one day tried to make a non skater Pay (rules were if you dont skate you dont pay) to which I responded in defense to that person and after receiving a bit of lip from the guy before I could jump in and comment there goes Marcus giving the guy hell and then a few others jumped in.

Yes with Skateboarding the brotherhood is more evident because its out in the open whereas Gymnastics is more within the gym but its all the same.

Now where does this fit in with the Gospel well we as christians are in a brotherhood with other christians and in Christ and when something is done wrong against our fellow believers we are called to stand up for that person. Take Polycarp, he was a christian martyr who lived in the roman empire and at that time if you said Jesus is Lord you would be burned at the stake because to the Romans Ceaser was Lord and Polycarp got caught out and was asked to denounce Christ in front of millions and he made this quote before being burned that changed the course of Hisrory and brought about a whole new brotherhood of christians " For 86 Years I have served him and he has done me no harm, how then can I abandon my king".