[J-CURVE: Union with Christ] 6. In-Sports vs In-Christ

This episode continues our series on the J-Curve, looking at what it means to be "in Christ."

"You can see two different loves operating here. Field hockey is a lesser love, but it is still a valid love. It was taking more time and energy than my greater love for Emily to know Jesus. But nevertheless, that greater love was shaping how I responded to failures in the lesser love."

"There's this whole world of lesser loves that are just delightful. Becoming like Jesus is not the dissolution of those lesser loves, but them rightly ordered."

"My imagination was captured by the idea that I wanted Emily to be in Jesus. I knew that the way to become in Jesus was to travel his journey and out of that would come resurrection. And it worked! It's so powerful! It was an imaginative vision of the beauty of Jesus coming into my family that had been mastering me for some 20 years."