A Dream Or A Nightmare?
As their coach, I watched the "team" practice, exercise, drill and play games. The "team" was almost completely filled with high powered, highly talented young athletes, but we couldn't win our games. I was not a great coach, but I had enough ability to lead less talented players into winning situations on other teams. The problem was that these players were so talented individually that they did not play together as a team. When great players don't work together, less talented teams can beat them. I think this is what we learned from the first USA Olympic Basketball "Dream Team." Never had there been such talent on the same team as that team in 1992. However, they did not start playing together as a team until after they had lost several games to college players and lesser lights. Even the superstars on the Dream Team admitted that they did not know how to play together.
But In The Church?
I am seeing the same factors in the church, which I never thought I would see. My heart breaks when I see highly gifted and talented people sidetracked and debilitated by pride, compromise, self fulfillment. I watch as the lost are being swept away by floods of darkness, while believers hide their lights or redirect their blessings in worldliness or self gratification. Self orientation is the watchword of the day. To a great extent, the mutual submission and self denial that is essential to spiritual success and church growth, are things of the past.
A Costly Loss.
Sadly, believers seem to be living for themselves, while the world goes to hell. God has a plan, and it is through New Testament Christianity and Biblical churchmanship. The world has led believers into spending their talents, gifts, abilities, energies, monies, time on the things that rot.
But In The Church?
I am seeing the same factors in the church, which I never thought I would see. My heart breaks when I see highly gifted and talented people sidetracked and debilitated by pride, compromise, self fulfillment. I watch as the lost are being swept away by floods of darkness, while believers hide their lights or redirect their blessings in worldliness or self gratification. Self orientation is the watchword of the day. To a great extent, the mutual submission and self denial that is essential to spiritual success and church growth, are things of the past.
A Costly Loss.
Sadly, believers seem to be living for themselves, while the world goes to hell. God has a plan, and it is through New Testament Christianity and Biblical churchmanship. The world has led believers into spending their talents, gifts, abilities, energies, monies, time on the things that rot.
1 Corinthians 9:25
(25) And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
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