Chapel – Sacrifice

Chapel – Sacrifice

1 – How does a competitor demonstrate genuine love for his teammates?

·      In the book about Coach Joe Ehrmann, “Season of Life” it says that the coaches’ job is to love the players and the players’ job is to love each other.

·      Over the last …… months you have done that.

·      Let’s continue that in today’s contest. 

·      Such love and sacrifice could be the key to a victory today.

2 – This is a great scripture on this theme.  I John 3:16-18 (read text aloud)

·      Christ Jesus is our example – He laid down His life for us.

·      We should lay down our lives for our teammates.

o   Some have done this by changing positions in mid-season.

o   Some have made adjustments in coaching style, daily schedules and more.

o   Some are doing it daily as they play through pain, through injuries and more.

o   We’re following Jesus’ example in so doing.

·      “Let us not love with word and tongue, but in deed and truth.”

o   Talk is easy, deeds are tough.

o   Talk is cheap, deeds are costly.

o   Talk works on practice days, deeds work on game day.

o   Words are good for newspapers, truth is good for teammates.

o   Words please radio listeners, truth pleases your coaches.

3 – Today, win or lose, we’ll be successful if we:

·      Follow Christ’s example and lay down our lives for each other.

·      Love not with word and tongue.

·      Love in deeds and in truth.