When I was a camp director the rules of long established and understood games were constantly being changed in order to incorporate a larger sphere of players. For the same reason Jesus said, "You have a clever way of rejecting God's law in order to uphold your own teaching." Jesus had a knack for constantly changing the rules of the game of life in order to incorporate a larger sphere of people in his kingdom net.

One such game where the rules were often changed was volleyball. Volleyball is a well-established game with rules which are basically understood by everyone who plays. Many times we would have children playing the game who were either handicapped or mentally retarded. In order to integrate these special children into the game of volleyball it was necessary to change the standing …