In an article on old-time pickup softball games—where seniors in Naperville, Illinois, gather twice weekly to test their skills against one another—writer Ted Gregory explains the risks: not pulled muscles and sprained ankles, but sometimes senior softball players suffer heart attacks from exerting themselves in the hot sun.

Despite the risks, 63-year-old Bill Body explained why he plays: "If I'm going to die, I'm going to die doing what I love doing, whether it's playing softball, fishing, hunting, or something else."

We're often tempted in the church to slow down, cut back, take it easy because we get tired of taking risks—and in Christ's work, there are a lot of emotional or spiritual risks. But Bill Body is exactly right: life itself is a risk—we're all going to die. So we might as well get involved, take the risks, and do the things in Christ we really love.