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Breakpoint

Fiji's Rugby Team Sings (and Wins) Again

Breakpoint

Colson Center

Christianity, News Commentary, News, Religion & Spirituality

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2022

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

A few weeks ago before their contest against Papua New Guinea, the Fijian rugby team took the field and lifted their voices in honor of God.

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With a one-minute look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with the point.

0:04.6

During last year's Olympics, the Fiji and Rugby team won the gold and captured hearts

0:09.2

by unashamedly and passionately singing a stirring hymn of praise after their victory.

0:14.7

If you've not seen it, it's kind of wonderfully intimidating to hear these literal giants

0:19.2

bellow out praises to God on the field.

0:21.3

And it seems they're at it again, a few weeks ago before their contest and pop one new

0:25.5

guinea, the team took the field and lifted their voices again in honor of God.

0:30.0

I dare you to listen to this song and not be moved.

0:32.8

Look with all the buzz about the dangers of Christian nationalism these days, it's worth

0:36.6

reflecting courtesy of our Fiji and brothers on the prospects of a nation so drenched

0:41.7

by the love of God and the truths of Christianity that singing hymns becomes a marker of national

0:46.8

identity.

0:47.8

It seems the most natural thing in the world.

0:49.8

It's also worth considering what it really means and doesn't mean for a nation to

0:55.2

be Christian in the first place.

0:57.6

For the Callsson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

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