But the leader of the synagogue, indignant be- cause Jesus had cured on the sabbath, kept saying to the crowd, “There are six days on which work ought to be done; come on those days and be cured, and not on the sabbath day.” Luke 13:14

When my brother, Brian’s kids were little, he used to coach football. Well, coaching may be too strong a word. These were nine and ten-year-olds and Brian used to say that what the league called coaching was really more like herding cats.

The team practiced twice a week where their two coaches taught them the fundamentals of football: blocking, tackling, throwing, and catching a pass, that kind of thing.

Then they would play a game on Saturday morning where they all forgot or refused to remember the fundamentals they had learned and just ran around the field li…