SEPTEMBER 27 "ARE YOU PLAYING TO WIN?"

   When my son was in middle school, they needed a coach for their football team, there was nobody volunteering, so I stepped up to the plate, ughh, I mean, the Field. We ran plays, practiced hard and had a winning team.


Like any sports team, you have your main guys and you run your plays around them. My son was the designated quarterback and we had this really good running back, wide receiver…we used him on punt return, he was our man.

I told everyone, “don’t eat before the game, it will slow you down and can even make you sick, eat something light, like a candy bar, we’ll all eat after the game. We won our first game, 2nd game, but in the 3rd game, this young man was playing horrible, he came up to me and said, “coach, I can’t do it anymore. I’m done, I can’t run.”

“What?” I said

He responded, “my mom brought me a big sandwich before the game and I ate it.”

I quickly responded, “We’re here to win, why would you stuff yourself with a big sandwich and hinder our chances at winning?"

He had no answer,...we lost the game and we were out of the tournament.

This may seem insignificant, a little football tournament over the week-end, but these same decisions and mindsets play out on the larger filed of...Life!  When we begin to withhold or feed our flesh, we cannot say we are coming to win. While this young boy knew his decision to feed his flesh would manifest itself, at one point throughout the day, he still made the decision to do it and sure enough it did. How many Christians are making decisions that they know, will at some point hurt the Church that is so desperately trying to win. The Church is hurt, the Church struggles, while we sit on the sidelines. People show up every Sunday to Church, but the question we must ask is, “are they playing to win, are WE playing to win?”

Paul writes in 2 Corinthians Chapter 3, “My ministry to you was a competent/successful ministry.
We served you competently/successfully and you are our letters of accommodation!

The Legacy of the Christian is the success of that church, that they faithfully and competently serve, week-end and week-out; the success of that Church becomes their Legacy….or not!

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