Yesterday I talked about the opportunity that I have to coach an indoor soccer team. The other day we had our first game and we got beat pretty bad. 11-2 bad. Yeah, it was our first game and half of the players are from one school and the other half are from another. So that is the long story short when it comes to our game. I brought two things away from the game that apply to our everyday lives and I believe they could be a valuable lesson learned. Tomorrow I will try to share how these apply to the Church. But here are my lessons learned for today…
#1 Our team was letting the ball come to them instead of attacking the ball.
In ministry I see this so much. I see people that let things come to them instead of attacking things and being aggressive. A lot of Christians live most of their lives being reactive instead of proactive. Examples…Instead of asking for accountability for the addiction to pornography we allow it to grow into a sleeping monster and one day it is exposed. Instead of keeping a date night every week with our spouse we sit back and wonder why our spouse wants a divorce when we have shown him/her no attention. Couples don’t read Scripture together, pray together, or talk about Spiritual things together until it is nearly too late. Christians fall into habits that they don’t like: drinking, smoking, drugs, greed, pre-marital sex, selfishness, etc.. because they are just letting life come to them. So many times in life we just let life come to us instead of attacking it and taking a proactive approach. If we continue this cycle much of life will pass us by and we will wish we had years of our life back so we could try it again. DON”T LET LIFE JUST COME TO YOU, ATTACK IT AND DO SOMETHING!! We need to be active because The Kingdom is at stake! There is much more to lose than just a few years of our lives, people are dying and going to hell every day! Let’s be aggressive!
#2 Our team had a lack of communication
Oh my, I don’t even know where to start. Since we have players from two different schools it was difficult to get on the same page. There was NO communication and it caused atleast 4 or 5 missed opportunities and 4 or 5 goals to be scored on us. Again, this happens so much in our everyday lives. When I lived with Davey most of our arguments or frustrations stemmed from a lack of communication. When I look at mine and Sherry’s relationship 99% of our arguments come from lack of communication, I admit mostly on my part. In life, this is something that we ALL struggle with. We all need to communicate more. We all need to share our feelings more. We all need to confront more. It is just a fact of life. That doesn’t mean we have to be OK with a lack of communication, we just need to work on it.
My challenge to you guys is how can we make this better in our lives? What are the steps we need to take to live an Aggressive Christian life? What are the steps we need to take to live a life with better communication?
