Pick a 'Loser'?
Theme of the Week: Duplicate Yourself
Gary Collins
Sunday, December 1, 2002
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Pick a 'Loser'?
Theme of the Week: Duplicate Yourself
Sunday, December 1
Key Bible Verse: Remember, dear brothers and sisters, that few of you were wise in the world's eyes, or powerful, or wealthy when God called you (1 Corinthians 1:26). Bonus Reading:1 Corinthians 1:27–31
Jon Ebert was the quarterback on his college football team and set a host of records. In gym classes, when they chose teams, he was always selected first. Jon was often the team captain and when he picked kids for his team, like everyone else, he picked the best players first.
One day his dad presented a challenge. "Why don't you start with the worst kids?" he suggested. "Show interest in them. Surprise them by picking them first. Give them a chance to play and show them how to do better. It's only a gym class, not a championship game." Jon tried this radical idea. His teams lost a lot of games with very lopsided scores. But the father taught a lesson that his son still remembers. There's nothing more exciting than coming alongside and coaching people who are eager to learn, highly motivated to win, and charged by the fact that someone finally believes in them. Some of those "loser" players that always had been chosen last in gym class went on to become fairly decent athletes. It all came because of good coaching.
—Gary Collins in Christian Coaching
Adapted from Christian Coaching (NavPress, 2001) by permission.
Copyright © 2002 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.
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November/December 2002,Vol. 5,No. 6
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