Team sports give every person who plays them a great opportunity:

To Be A Great Teammate

In a stat driven world, this is hard to measure.  But it is very easy to see.  And it is so easy to see that I can remember great teammates on every team that I have played on and coached.  And these guys are the guys I have a heart for even today that goes well beyond their athletic performance.

Though hard to define, I can think of a few things that made them, in my mind, great teammates:

  • A great teammate makes the people around him or her better.
  • A great teammate motivates others and they want to play well for him or her.
  • A great teammate celebrates team victories and others’ accomplishments.
  • A great teammate takes responsibility for his or her team.

As we walk in the freedom of America and celebrate the fact that we live in an amazing country, let’s not forget about these very principles.

Because they are the foundation of the Christian faith.

Philippians 2 5 Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:

6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,

7 but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.

8 And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death– even death on a cross!

9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name,

10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

The celebration of our faith is about Jesus rising from the dead.  But the only reason that happened is that Jesus went to it in the first place.  He “humbled Himself and became obedient to death—even death on a cross”.

He was a great teammate.

As I began to write this today, I thought of a Kristian Stanfill song from 2017.  I think the words ring true from 2017 … but they also work for all of us as we move forward in 2022.

I needed rescue, my sin was heavy

But chains break at the weight of Your glory

I needed shelter I was an orphan

Now you call me a citizen of heaven

When I was broken You were my healing

Now Your love is the air that I am breathing

I have a future my eyes are open

Cause when you called my name

I ran out of that grave

Jesus celebrates a victory with you that you never could have attained on your own accord.

In The Name of the Father and the 

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

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Coach J