{"id":487,"date":"2018-01-10T10:38:05","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T15:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westlakebaptist.org\/blog\/?p=487"},"modified":"2018-01-10T10:43:02","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T15:43:02","slug":"lessons-from-the-national-championship-game-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westlakebaptist.org\/blog\/lessons-from-the-national-championship-game-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons From the National Championship Game Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So often sports, leadership, and church come together to provide some incredible teaching opportunities. \u00a0I believe the college football national championship game this past Monday night is an example of this. \u00a0Today and tomorrow, we will look at a few lessons we as Christians can learn from game. \u00a0Today we will look at two points, then tomorrow we will look at two more.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Be who you are<\/strong> <strong>(Gal. 1:10)<\/strong>. Alabama wasn\u2019t going to try to be Georgia, they weren\u2019t going to try to be Clemson, or Florida State, or anyone else.\u00a0 Alabama was going to be Alabama.\u00a0 They knew who they were.\u00a0 In the same way, Westlake must be Westlake.\u00a0 We can\u2019t try to be Halesford or Eastlake or Cross Pointe.\u00a0 Those are great churches with great leaders.\u00a0 But we aren\u2019t them.\u00a0 Paul in writing to the Corinthians said, \u201cWhat I am saying is this: each of you says, \u2018I am with Paul\u2019, or \u2018I am with Apollos\u2019, or \u2018I\u2019m with Cephas\u2019, or \u2018I\u2019m with Christ.\u2019\u00a0 Is Christ divided?\u00a0 Was it Paul who was crucified for you?\u00a0 Or were you baptized in Paul\u2019s name?\u00a0 I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius, so that no one can say you were baptized in my name.\u201d\u00a0 God has given us a mission field, and He has given us gifted people with the proper spiritual gifts to reach that mission field.\u00a0 Westlake should be grateful and confident that we are who God is making us into.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Have a plan (Prov<\/strong>. <strong>24:3-5)<\/strong>.\u00a0 Scripture is full of verses that talk about the wisdom of planning.\u00a0 As the old saying goes, \u201cpeople don\u2019t plan to fail, they fail to plan.\u201d\u00a0 One of my favorite verses in Proverbs is Proverbs 11:14 that says, \u201cWithout guidance, people fall, but with many counselors there is deliverance.\u201d\u00a0 Not only should we plan, but we should run those plans by spiritually mature people.\u00a0 The head coach has an overall strategy for what he wants his team to be.\u00a0 The offensive and defensive coordinators are hired to accomplish the vision.\u00a0 They have their own plans, but they make sure that their plans align with the overall vision for the team.\u00a0 This is how our staff should function as well.\u00a0 The head coach doesn\u2019t micromanage.\u00a0 Instead, he empowers the other coaches to come up with their game plan within the framework of the overall vision for the team.\u00a0 Then they have coaches under the coordinators that work with the team to put the game plan into practice to prepare for the game.\u00a0 The other side of it is when the position coaches implement the coordinators plan in practice, they have the power to go back to the coordinator and say \u201chey this isn\u2019t working.\u201d\u00a0 Then if necessary the coordinator has the power and right to go to the coach and say, \u201ccoach I know what you want to do, but we don\u2019t have the players to do it.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope you enjoyed looking at these first two points. \u00a0Hopefully they challenged you in a few ways as well. \u00a0Tomorrow we will look at two more lessons we can learn to help us in our walk with Christ and challenge us to become stronger leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So often sports, leadership, and church come together to provide some incredible teaching opportunities. \u00a0I believe the college football national championship game this past Monday night is an example of this. \u00a0Today and tomorrow, we will look at a few &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westlakebaptist.org\/blog\/lessons-from-the-national-championship-game-part-1\/\">Read More <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[323],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westlakebaptist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westlakebaptist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westlakebaptist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westlakebaptist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westlakebaptist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.westlakebaptist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488,"href":"https:\/\/www.westlakebaptist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westlakebaptist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westlakebaptist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westlakebaptist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}