During my years of playing high school football, we always had some teammates that were just luke warm about being on the team. They were unenthusiastic, half-hearted, apathetic, bored, lackadaisical, and passionless about being on the football team. Those were just some of the adjectives we could say about them.

I remember myself and several of my friends asking some of those apathetic football players why they were out for football? Some of them said they were out for football because their dad’s made them come out for the team and they did not want to be there. One of the guys actually said his girlfriend wanted him to go out for football even though he didn’t want to. And then there were guys who wanted to be on the team, but they hated practice, so they went half speed so to speak during practice but wanted to only play in the games. And some of those guys were the most athletic kids on the team.

I have to say this also. I have talked to coaches in the past that didn’t sound enthusiastic about coaching young men.

Everywhere we go in life we seem to have some bored, half-hearted, unenthusiastic, passionless people. At our work, at church, in our sports in our other club organizations we have the same type of people. I don’t know about you, but I like to hang with excited people who want to be wherever we happen to be in life. I know it takes all kinds of people to make the world go around but find your niche and fill it.

Jesus said in Revelations 3:15-16 I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.