With Wimbledon over and the football world cup drawing to close, let me pose this question at the beginning of the week – will there be sport in ‘heaven’? Or to put it more precisely, will there be any competitive sport in ‘heaven’? I put the word heaven in quotation marks, of course, because I don’t believe that heaven will be our final destination; rather there will be a new heaven and a new earth and it is on this renewed earth that we will spend eternity.

But I digress. Back to my question – how would you answer? Although I enjoy sport a great deal – though only watching, you understand – I’m not too sure there will be any competitive action in eternity. Why? Well because I don’t believe there is any competitiveness within the Trinity. I don’t think they enjoy a quick game of three-goals-and-in on a Sunday afternoon in the local park. Within that fellowship between Father, Son and Holy Spirit there is only cooperation, consensus, and working for each other rather than working against each other to see who is best.

And if this is so, then this must be a part of the image that we have been created in. It has been long recognised that being in fellowship and community is an essential element of the image of God within humanity, thus reflecting the Trinitarian nature of God. Well if that is so then it must also follow that cooperation is also a part of that image and that competition, therefore, derives from the fall.

So, no sport in heaven. Any thoughts from anyone?

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