Is there a problem with playing for an audience of one?
Scroll through any Christian sports players’ social media and you’ll likely see #ao1 in their posts. It stands for ‘Audience of One’ and is a phrase that has been around for a few decades. It started in America with the organisation Athletes in Action saying:
'The intent of the phrase is to help Christian players remember that everywhere in life - even in a stadium full of people - “we live and move and have our being in Him,” and it’s His pleasure we should pursue above all else.'
Are we forgetting that sports stars are human?
“There is no place for weak men in my dressing room.” That was England captain Ben Stokes’s frustrated verdict after …