There wasn’t a theme, but each speaker shared how FCA made a difference in their life and encouraged us to keep doing what we’re doing.
In early July, I attended an FCA camp at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, and I reflected on the closing point of Dr. Evans.
This was shortly after the riots in Ferguson, Missouri. Dr. Evans said he was asked to talk to us about racial reconciliation. He compared sports to racial issues.
At the end of his talk, he said he wanted to leave us with mayonnaise.
I was like, “What? Where are you going with this?”
But he said mayonnaise is made up of two things that don’t blend together, oil and water. In order to blend and be an entity, you need an emulsifier. That’s something that, chemically, can take the oil and water, bring them together and keep them together.
Dr. Evans asked us if we knew what the emulsifier was for mayonnaise. “Eggs are the emulsifier,” he said.
Dr. Evans added that, in the United States – even the whole world – the emulsifier is the Gospel of Jesus Christ. But more than that, it is people living out the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He reminded us that the FCA is in a “perfect spot” to be an emulsifier, uniting people from all backgrounds, bringing them together at the foot of the cross through the ministry of sports.
