Our Team Name

[286 words] Well football season is in full swing! If you were granted a new team to join the National Football League, what team name would you choose? Have you ever noticed that when teams choose an animal for a team name it is usually a ferocious one? For example, in the NFL, we have the Bears, the Panthers, the Jaguars, the Bengals, and the Lions. Why isn’t there a team named the Squirrels, the Chipmunks, or the Bunny Rabbits? Because it doesn’t strike fear into an opponent. Fans like team names that sound like they could maul the opposition. When Jesus sent out the seventy disciples on a mission trip in Luke 10, He gave them a team name, if you will. Do you know what it was? In verse 3 He told them this, “Go your way; behold I send you out as lambs among wolves.” The “Jesus…