“Game management” is important in every sport… you think of it with football and the 2-minute offenses, or in hoops with if a team should slow things down or get out on the break, or just an individual player determining what “gear” to be in to set up his move…
I was already planning to deal with this topic, and then I saw an article tonight about the Los Angeles Clippers blowing big leads in their last couple of games; their coach, Doc Rivers, stated that he knew the problem… once they got up on the scoreboard, they stopped playing with pace and purpose…
When teams stop playing with pace and purpose it is often stated that it was like someone “took the air out of the ball…”; guys start standing still and not cutting hard to the basket… the game tends to become “East-West” (side to side) instead of “North-South” (getting to the goal.)
Obviously the “pace” of 2020 was brought to a standstill back in March when the quarantines started hitting; we could truly say the “air was taken out of the ball.” As a result life became very much just idly standing around and not “playing” with any pace or purpose.
Yet 1 Corinthians 15:58 says we should be “always abounding in the work of the Lord”! And 1 Peter 4:10 states this: “As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.”
Playing with Pace and Purpose involves: Not standing around but actually “abounding”… actively “ministering to one another”… “as good stewards”…
A steward is one that has been charged with managing a household or land or financial affairs… it is a superintendent of sorts. We are commissioned to manage our gifts and our time properly… with Pace and Purpose! Stop standing around… make a move… cut to the basket… you get the picture!
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