The long snapper, in a football game, is very important. He must snap the ball to the punter or place kick holder and be perfect every time. Most of the time it is no longer just the starting center doing the long snapper duties, it is a specialist who the coach trains to perform this particular duty.
As the long snapper you can have the greatest game and make every snap perfect and no one will ever notice. But if you make one bad snap in the game, suddenly everyone will know who you are and they will question your ability to do what you do.
In our Christian walk of life most of us are also called to be a niche role player like the long snapper. Most of us will never be the quarterback or the all-state running back. But the job God has given you will be just as important even though the ball is rarely in our hands.
As a Christian, people will be watching you as you live your life. They will see you go to church. They will see the cross or the rosary beads hanging from your rear view mirror in your vehicle. And when you snap the ball over the punters head (so to speak) and screw up, everyone will know your name and talk about you. “Yeah, he is supposed to be a Christian, but look at him now!”
In the football game the coach may be angry, but he will put the long snapper back in the game to snap on the next opportunity. God will do the same and forgive you of your screw up also.
John 8:3-11 The Scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman caught in adultery, and having set her in the center of the court, they said to Him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in adultery, in the very act. Now in the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women; what then do you say?” They were saying this, testing Him, so that they might have grounds for accusing Him. But Jesus stooped down and with His finger wrote on the ground. But when they persisted in asking Him, He straightened up, and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.” Again He stooped down and wrote on the ground. When they heard it, they began to go out one by one, beginning with the older ones, and He was left alone, and the woman, where she was, in the center of the court. Straightening up, Jesus said to her, “Woman, where are they? Did no one condemn you?” She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “I do not condemn you, either. Go. From now on sin no more.”