Lipscomb’s own Chris Klotz took the stage for this Tuesday’s Gathering.
“For those of you who don’t know me, I’m the guy that you hate on the airplane. I’ll always want to get to know you.” Klotz said, beginning his message. He then played a video and paused on a frame of a man he said he met on a plane.
Normally, people in movies want to be seen, if even for a split second. This man was just clapping, enjoying his two seconds on screen.
Klotz explained his analogy: we all have two seconds of “screen time.” Our lives are relatively short in the grand scheme of things. He said that our culture tells us our time here should be self-centered. It tells us to make sure that our face is seen so people know who we are.
Klotz said his humbling moment was when a coach asked him why he played soccer. Klotz answered with, “I enjoy it, it got me into college, and it’s brought me a lot of other things.” The coach pointed out that for every reason, Klotz talked about himself.
The coach asked, “What if for the first time, soccer wasn’t about you?” This moment is when Klotz realized everything we do matters for reasons other than our own benefit.
He told another story about keeping our eyes on God by remembering a mission trip to Africa with his team. After all their hard work, the mission team enjoyed a safari.
They came across an area where a lion was spotted in the bushes. They were so fixated on this
lion. They looked around and realized that all the other animals were silent and watching the lion, too. Klotz said this moment reminded him of humanity and how we fixate on certain things. These animals were all watching this lion in awe and reverence. They all know that it is the king of their world.
In the same way, Klotz said that Christians need to focus on Jesus.
“I’ve done a ton of things for Jesus that didn’t end up being good,” Klotz said. ” You have to do things with Jesus, in Jesus, through Jesus. Fix our everything on Jesus.”
He replayed the clip of the man with his two-second screen time. Klotz concluded, “This man isn’t focused on his screen time, he’s clapping for the king with everything he has, consumed fully by working for the king.”
Klotz left the audience by saying that we need to use our two seconds of screen time to clap for the King.