it’s football season.

that’s great. i love when people get into sports (in that i don’t have any specific disappointment with them). i am not really a sports fan. i just don’t get it. but that’s ok, because i understand that lots of other people don’t get into music or website maintenance or video encoding like i do.

but, unfortunately at this time of year there’s one thing i can’t escape: fantasy football.

do i participate? no, not at all. i wouldn’t know where to begin. and i don’t care to watch or learn. but, though i am not participating in anyone’s fantasy, i can’t seem to avoid the conversations and the projections and the predictions and the ads and all the other trappings that come along with the beginning of the season.

this year it seems like way more people are into fantasy football than ever before. perhaps it is just my perception, but it has caused me to start thinking, ’shouldn’t there be an alternative for the rest of us?’

yes. yes there should.

and no, no i don’t mean fantasy baseball, basketball, hockey or curling.

a real alternative.

my dad and i were talking about this very topic a few weeks ago while sitting and listening to a group of people go on and on about their fantasy football team’s performance.

and then it came to us: fantasy church league.

think about it…you’d have just as many positions to fill, just as many players to choose from, and, thanks to 24-hour news and the internet, the ability to keep track of performance.

your church could include, but not be limited to, a structure like this:

Teaching Pastor
Outreach Planning Pastor(s)
Publishing Pastors
Pastor of Evangelism
Youth Pastor

Missions Director
Children’s Ministry Director
Director of Visitation

Program Planners
Campus Designers

Deacons
Ushers

Worship Team (that will take up most of your season)

the sky is the limit!

i mean, for all of you looking to devote more time to online-sport, you’d have practically no time for anything else. you’d just get to spend your whole day searching stats, restructuring positions, scoring e-Spirit-points…etc.

how would you score e-Spirit-points? i’m glad you asked…

obviously the rubric is still in development, but here are a few examples:

say one of your pastors releases a new book…10 e-Spirit-points. now, say that particular pastor was your ‘pubishing pastor,’ well then, you just grabbed yourself an additional 32 eSp’s.

or, perhaps your worship team’s bassist gets picked up to play on a world tour: you’ve got 12 eSp’s coming your way.

your evangelism team held a crusade? 45 eSp’s. more than 100 conversions? that adds 6 eSp’s per dozen conversions for your fantasy church plant.

now, let’s say your campus designer’s church forecloses, or, maybe your mission’s director is featured on some sort of (reputible) theological watchdog website…well, then you are going to be losing some points there.

we couldn’t really make any money doing it, but i suppose you could take the season’s pot and add it to the winner’s tithe for the month…

who might you have on your team, or, what other positions might you add?

FCL ‘08 IS GOING TO ROCK!

as long as we all give 110% out there on the e-mission-field…

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blogging, nonsense | September 22nd, 2008