Futbol anyone
I have found myself really busy in the last few weeks. Soccer season is in full swing and I coach three teams, well five in a sense, two are playing indoor right now, and three will be playing outdoor in just a few weeks. Last weekend my 13 year old team got it handed to them on the soccerfield. This team is a first year team, have never played together before, and my son played goalie for the first time ever. they played aainst a team that went 7-1-0 last season in A division (the highest division). we play in C division (the lowest). We lost 24 to 0 and their heads were hanging very low. I wondered if I would even be able to get them back on the field for the next game. they resorted to trash talking their own team for such a loss.
At the end of the game it is my job as coach to have a talk with the kids about the game... half my team just left and went home. But the half that stayed got to hear on of my best pep talks (sermons to the team if you will). I spoke to them about the journey, not the destination. You see their minds were on winning, but mine was on their becoming something. Becoming a team, a unit, a community if you will grant me some latitude with the word. learning their names, their skill, their weakness, their positions and most of all... a mutual respect for each other. you see when this happens the other comes, games begin to be won, friendships developed, and we shine! You see, when we learn to be a team we can compliment eachothers strengths and weaknesses for the greater good. we start thinking in terms of the team rather than "me". we start acting in such a way, and playing such a way that the team is benefited...
I think God would smile at that, if His people functioned like that. thinking of the community instead of onesself, learning to compliment each others lives, haveing ours eyes off heaven and onto becoming something... You see I think that IS what God wanted. More of the Bible's teaching is about becoming a community of faith than is found therein about heaven. And eternal life is described as beginning at the point of Christ meeting, not the point of death. We have focused on the destination rather than the journey. more on where we were going than on who we were to be. I pray my soccer team can enjoy becomeing instead of despairing the destination, and likewise I pray the church would spend less time on the destination and more time on the journey!
At the end of the game it is my job as coach to have a talk with the kids about the game... half my team just left and went home. But the half that stayed got to hear on of my best pep talks (sermons to the team if you will). I spoke to them about the journey, not the destination. You see their minds were on winning, but mine was on their becoming something. Becoming a team, a unit, a community if you will grant me some latitude with the word. learning their names, their skill, their weakness, their positions and most of all... a mutual respect for each other. you see when this happens the other comes, games begin to be won, friendships developed, and we shine! You see, when we learn to be a team we can compliment eachothers strengths and weaknesses for the greater good. we start thinking in terms of the team rather than "me". we start acting in such a way, and playing such a way that the team is benefited...
I think God would smile at that, if His people functioned like that. thinking of the community instead of onesself, learning to compliment each others lives, haveing ours eyes off heaven and onto becoming something... You see I think that IS what God wanted. More of the Bible's teaching is about becoming a community of faith than is found therein about heaven. And eternal life is described as beginning at the point of Christ meeting, not the point of death. We have focused on the destination rather than the journey. more on where we were going than on who we were to be. I pray my soccer team can enjoy becomeing instead of despairing the destination, and likewise I pray the church would spend less time on the destination and more time on the journey!
BTW we play again today @ 4pm, I'll get my team manager to shoot some photo's and I'll post a few! GO EXTREME!
posted by Carl at 8:16 AM
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