Our team is very uncommon. Although it has never won a national or world championship, it is the most successful team of all time. Its consistency and longevity are unmatched - 2000 years and counting. The team's overall wealth and membership are beyond calculation. Every player is a stockholder, and the team has the same management and coaching staff since its inception. Though the team has suffered setbacks and occasionally stumbles, the team never has been, and never will be beaten.

It is not like any other team you've ever known. The power and authority at its disposal can shake the foundations of the earth, yet it never intimidates or overpowers its foes. Rather, the strength of the team is in its meekness, its brilliance in its humility. Players are required to be totally committed to a rigorous policy of moral purity, obedience, loyality, and sacrifical love.

Do you know about our coach? He is a proven leader. In His playing days, He was the all-time champ. He knows what it takes to win. He is a brilliant and patient teacher.

Our coach handcrafted the team with a single-minded vision, handpicking each player, expending every resource, and sparing no expense in the recruiting process. He is intimately aware of each player's strengths, weaknesses, and flaws. He wrote their names on His roster and assigned each a spot on the squad before there was even a team.

Coach is both our guiding mentor and loving father. Intimately aware of our greatest failures and grandest dreams, Coach works tirelessly to train, cheer, and whip us into shape so we can serve the team effectively.

Like no other team, our spot on the roster doesn't depend on performance. Because He loves me for who I am, Coach wants to keep working with me until I get it right. He bought my rights for the highest price - much more than I was worth - then signed me to the richest contract in history. The duration of my contract goes way beyond "lifetime." It keeps earning interest into eternity. No matter how badly I blow it, no matter how undeserving I am, He never shops me around, discards, or trades me for a higher draft pick. Why? Because He drafted me not just to support the team, but to become part of His extended family. One day He will invite me to come live in His mansion.

Do you know about our Playbook? It is unlike any other playbook. It is flawless; it holds the keys to wisdom and illustrates the perfect play for any situation. More than that, it is a personal strategy for a life of significance, which Coach knows is every player's dream. Coach penned each word as a blueprint for what He calls "abundant life:" what it means to be a real player, how to treat the other team members, the importance of trusting in the wisdom and play calling of our Coach.

The Game Plan

Coach doesn't give us His game plan, then turn us loose. He doesn't just bark orders from the sidelines. He leads us on to the field, helps us call the play, then throws the first block. He knows what to do in every situation. His game plan is simple - it never deviates from the Playbook. No one just rides the bench in His game plan; every player is an active participant. We all get to carry the ball. We are always excited, on the alert, knowing that at any moment He might call our number. By simply playing the game, all players discover gifts and talents they've never known.

The Opposition

The opposing team has a fast offense. It is free-spirited, reckless, over-confident. Its style of play forces each player to compete feverishly for a spot on the lineup. Performance is everything; built-in incentives force each player to vie for individual glory rather than for the team's success. There was a time when we all played on this team.

The opposing coach is clever, ingenious, deceptive. He, too, is a skilled motivator. He has coaxed some of our best friends and loved ones into lifetime contracts. They can't see that he's not committed to their well-being, but is secretly motivated by deep hatred. He doesn't love his players, could care less about their dreams, and, most of all, doesn't want them to even hear about the love of our Coach. A pathological liar, he twists the truth, pointing his team down a dead-end path of pleasure-seeking and self-gratification, knowing they will ultimately lose the game. In the end, players for the opposing team will know they poured out their peak performance on a counterfeit promise. The worst part is they will realize that they have forfeited the staggering joy and privilege of playing for our Coach.

Coach demands obedience to a fair set of rules and, as such, invests heavily in our education. Faith, repentance, confession and obedience are our disciplines; they are the mighty engine behind our Coach's powerful offense. Our uniform is truth, righteousness, peace, joy and purity. When worn properly, and when exercised with radical faith according to our Coach's matchless counsel, our tools and uniform serve as impenetrable armor on the battlefield.

It is no suprise that our best players are the ones who spend the most time with Coach and who play the game completely sold out to Him. They love the sound of His voice; they delight in asking Him questions; they find strength in His example. When the game is on the line, those who trust Him most strike fear in the hearts of the opposition.

The most incredible thing about Coach is that He loved each of us before we loved Him. He proved His love by paying history's highest price to include each of us on the team. Knowing we could never understand or earn His gift on our own - and even while we were still fiercely loyal to the opposition - He removed His coach's hat and took the field on our behalf, as a player.

We love our Coach. He keeps encouraging us. He expects perfection, but is easy to please. We have all dropped the ball, committed personal fouls, and even helped the other team score, but He never changes. He keeps sending us back into the game, enlisting us to do our best. He keeps telling us all that, no matter what, He still loves us. I believe Him. He is our best Friend.

We have only one team, but many squads competing around the world. Our sole mission is to share the good news about playing for our Coach. We taste our sweetest victories when members of the other team rip up their contracts and join us.

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