THE TESTS OF DISCIPLESHIP (3 OF 7)
by Tony Thomas
Scripture: 1 John 2:7-17
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The Tests of Discipleship (3 of 7)
Series: Authentic Christianity (1 John)
Tony Thomas
1 John 2:7-17
This years' Super Bowl was played between the Patriots and the Rams at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia. The seating capacity is 71,000 - but only 17,892 seats were available to the public. The NFL does not subscribe to an ''equal opportunity'' philosophy when it comes to the Super Bowl tickets!
The Patriots and Rams split 35% of the tickets (24,850); Atlanta, the host city, received 6.2% (4,402); the remaining twenty-eight NFL teams split 33.6% (23,856); and that left the NFL with 25.2% (17,892). In order to get into the lottery for those 17,892 tickets you had to be a season ticket holder - which I am not.
I've been to several World Series games - but I've never been to a Super Bowl. For kicks, I looked into the cost of two tickets. The Super Bowl is not on my bucket list, but I have a cousin who lives in Atlanta so I could bunk out at her house and all I'd be out is the cost of two tickets. How much could that set me back? Well, I soon found out that the average price was $3000 ... which I was told, ''Was a real bargain!''
Bargain schmargain! I know my way around a computer so I figured I could find a ''reasonably priced ticket'' on my own! However, the least expensive ticket on stubhub was $3600 (for a corner seat in the rafters). But, if I wanted to sit in a suite, the cost was a mere $475,000 for two seats near the 20-yard-line.
After the briefest conversation of our marriage, I passed! That might explain why Ketan Shah, an Atlanta resident, scammed family and friends over fake Super Bowl tickets. WSB-TV in Atlanta broke the story when Shah scammed his own mother and customers, and made off with about $1million!
Would you like to know how that happened? Shah owns his own digital printing company, so printing fake tickets was relatively easy. And, he had a squeaky-clean reputation; the customers he scammed trusted him.
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Series: Authentic Christianity (1 John)
Tony Thomas
1 John 2:7-17
This years' Super Bowl was played between the Patriots and the Rams at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia. The seating capacity is 71,000 - but only 17,892 seats were available to the public. The NFL does not subscribe to an ''equal opportunity'' philosophy when it comes to the Super Bowl tickets!
The Patriots and Rams split 35% of the tickets (24,850); Atlanta, the host city, received 6.2% (4,402); the remaining twenty-eight NFL teams split 33.6% (23,856); and that left the NFL with 25.2% (17,892). In order to get into the lottery for those 17,892 tickets you had to be a season ticket holder - which I am not.
I've been to several World Series games - but I've never been to a Super Bowl. For kicks, I looked into the cost of two tickets. The Super Bowl is not on my bucket list, but I have a cousin who lives in Atlanta so I could bunk out at her house and all I'd be out is the cost of two tickets. How much could that set me back? Well, I soon found out that the average price was $3000 ... which I was told, ''Was a real bargain!''
Bargain schmargain! I know my way around a computer so I figured I could find a ''reasonably priced ticket'' on my own! However, the least expensive ticket on stubhub was $3600 (for a corner seat in the rafters). But, if I wanted to sit in a suite, the cost was a mere $475,000 for two seats near the 20-yard-line.
After the briefest conversation of our marriage, I passed! That might explain why Ketan Shah, an Atlanta resident, scammed family and friends over fake Super Bowl tickets. WSB-TV in Atlanta broke the story when Shah scammed his own mother and customers, and made off with about $1million!
Would you like to know how that happened? Shah owns his own digital printing company, so printing fake tickets was relatively easy. And, he had a squeaky-clean reputation; the customers he scammed trusted him.
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