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Thursday, December 13, 2012
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012
This weeks lesson and text... Hosea 4 - Please read the entire chapter. This is a very important Lesson series. Spend time in the word this week.
As you read and study this week, please consider please prayerfully consider the following article and questions.
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We should turn from attitudes and behavior that hurt us and displease God. The question is why many of us don't. The following article is a summary about a pro football coach's no-nonsense approach to discipline. Jeff Fisher is former coach of the Tennessee Titans and current coach of the St Louis Rams. Last week there was "controversy" in St Louis for Coach Fishers benching of 2 key players on the team. See the summary below and 3 questions that will provide a good segway into our lesson Sunday.
When you treat professional athletes like grown men, there's an expectation for them to actually behave like adults. That's always been Jeff Fisher's way of doing business as a football coach.
As a former player, he understands what rules make sense and which ones are just plain stupid. It's one of the reasons the causes of Sunday's benching of Janoris Jenkins and Chris Givens go well beyond disappointing and race all the way to just plain stupid. We still don't know for sure what the two talented rookies did to get into Fisher's doghouse, but trust me on this, it wasn't for something trivial.
"I think you have to look at each individual and set of circumstances and what the issues were," Fisher told me last spring during rookie minicamp.
You give them clear rules that make sense. You surround them with strong-willed leaders in the locker room and you surround them with smart people outside the locker room who will help teach them how to make better decisions with their lives than they did in the past.
The world is full of guys like Jenkins and Givens. In high school and college I played with a few of them and watched their self-destructive behavior get the best of them. Professionally, I've covered the lives of so many gifted young men who had all the talent in the world, but for some reason allowed demons and bad choices to derail their lives. I don't know if that's what's happening here with Jenkins and Givens, but I do know that every one of those tragic stories I witnessed in the past started out just like this.
The craziest thing is, the Rams have provided all their players with all the proper support systems you can imagine to ensure they don't run into trouble. But all the support systems in the world won't help if the athlete doesn't want to be helped.
A young player who continues to make knuckleheaded mistakes can find himself on a startling free fall from promising starter to benched trouble maker to unemployed in a hurry in pro football. On Sunday, the Rams moved on without Jenkins and Givens without skipping a beat.
That's how quickly things move in pro football. One man's misfortune is another's opportunity, and let's hope that Jenkins and Givens don't have to learn that lesson the hard way.
Please consider these 3 questions as we move toward Sundays lesson.
- Why do you think some people persist in destructive behavior even when they know and have experienced severe consequences for their actions?
- How does Coach Fisher's approach help us understand that God does not give us rules to deny us freedom or pleasure, but for our own good?
- The writer observed that "all the support systems in the world won't help if the athlete doesn't want to be helped." How does this apply to discipleship and our Christian obedience?
Sincerely
Lee Daniel, CIC, CPIA
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