Game Cube Golf Tournament - Part 2

My three children and I recently had a Game Cube golf tournament. To the best of my knowledge the game is not programmed to give mulligans ....

Webster's dictionary lists the word 'mul·li·gan' as a noun with this meaning: 'a free shot sometimes given a golfer in informal play when the previous shot was poorly played.'

Here is a variation of that definition that I've heard that I like even better: 'a free shot sometimes given a golfer in informal play when the previous shot was poorly played ... and the golfer is among friends. '

The beauty of a mulligan is that it is a conferment of grace on an undeserving person who just screwed up.

Jesus angered the religious people of His day because He frequently gave out mulligans to notorious sinners. In the Bible, John records that a woman caught in adultery was about to be stoned to death by a mob when Jesus stepped in and insisted that the first person to throw a stone should be the one who had never sinned. One by one the crowd dispersed. Jesus turned to the woman and told her that He wouldn't condemn her either. He said 'From now on sin no more'.

Likewise Christ won't condemn us if we, in prayer, confess our sins to Him, ask for forgiveness, and turn our lives over to His leadership. The hound of heaven sought us out to rescue us by sending Jesus down to earth and dying on the cross, for our sins, in our place.

(Pictured above is my son Josh's Game Cube character for our golf tournament.)