Sermon Illustrations
French Football Team Makes the Most of Misspelled Jerseys
Spellcheck is a saving grace for many of us. But what about when you type out a word that is an actual, correctly spelled word—that's just not the right word?
That's what happened recently to the French football team Montpellier HSC. The team had ordered new jerseys, but they came in with a tiny error: only one "l" instead of two in the name.
So what did the team do? Thankfully, there was another town that could benefit from the mistake—Montpelier, Vermont.
The team plans on sending the jerseys to Montpelier High School's soccer teams "for a game or two," after which they might be sold locally to "turn this all into a good thing."
The high school's athletic director expressed his gratitude for the gift: "We have nice things for our students here but certainly not the level of professional jerseys. I'm sure the kids will just be ecstatic."
Potential Preaching Angles: This story might offer a whole new kind of application to Luke 3:11: "Anyone who has two shirts should share with the one who has none." When faced with something they couldn't use, the French team wasted not; rather, they sought out who might benefit from their "two shirts" (or, in this case, many misspelled jerseys).