Bud Wilkinson, a famous football coach, was once asked, “What contribution does professional sport make to the physical fitness of Americans?” To no one’s surprise, he answered, “Very little. A professional football game,” he said, “is a happening where fifty thousand spectators, desperately needing exercise, sit in the stands watching twenty-two men on the field, desperately needing rest.” That’s also a description of the typical mid-twentieth-century church organization.
Baker Books , 1500 Illustrations for Biblical Preaching, by Michael P. Green