The Perfect Game... ISOG

PTR /// Pass the Rock

English - December 13, 2020 14:00 - 6 minutes - 4.37 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
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14/40 - The Perfect Game...

No one sets out to make mistakes or errors...

Russ Schoene (Former Seattle SuperSonic) broke it down for me:‘The goal is to play a perfect game... you never reached it but you strive for it and aim to be as close to it as possible.’

Baseball: no perfect game... pitcher will throw some balls.

Football: every completion? Perfectly? Short of a TD?

Basketball: miss any shots ever? Defense no one gets by? Perfect passes?

““You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” -Matthew 5:43-48

Greek: ‘teleios’. 40x in NT... brought to completion, fully accomplished, fully developed.

Strive to train and play perfect... fully developed, completion, accomplished.

Jimmy McKinney... Vashon HS, STL... 4 year start at University of Missouri, played overseas, back coaching at Vashon.

-EVERYDAY after practice... didn’t make 15 shots, swished 15.

-Wasn’t enough to make it... perfect- needed the swish!

-Jimmy was training to be perfect.

Spiritually when we look at our day... the goal is to live as Jesus did and He was perfect... we evaluate that, know it’s impossible... but strive for it everyday!

Faith in action:
-Focus on one aspect of your game to be perfect in.

-Focus on one area of your spiritual life to strive for perfection.

The results of striving each day after perfection are night and day difference- than when we don’t.

Our lives should be drastically different when we are striving to be like Jesus, than when we didn’t.

Live our lives pursuing perfection on and off the field.