A phrase I have used often in coaching is “when in doubt, fill out!”
The phrase is in reference to basketball players ending up clogging up the lane when they don’t understand their roles or their “lanes” - therefore they all run to the middle and hinder the progression of the play... and the opportunity to score!
But the concept is not intended to have the player go outside of the lane and just stand there as a spectator... the goal is to “fill out” in order to find someone to set a screen for... or to find an open lane to cut looking to get a pass... or simply to pull extra defenders away from the ball because they have to worry about the player that filled out...
If the player in doubt fills out to a place of inactivity, he has lost focus of his responsibilities to help the team reach its goal!
Far too often I find that believers are unsure of their roles - the lanes they should be in... this often results in “filling out” and becoming just spectators. They are on the team and will sit on the bench/pews but fail to get in the game!
Believers, it is imperative that we work as a team!
We should each be finding our spiritual gifts and using them... (“Shooters shoot!”)
And when the “ball is not in our hands” we should be actively looking to free up our teammates (i.e. through prayer and financial support) AND actively searching for an “open lane to receive a pass and score...”
“For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field,
you are God’s building. According to the grace of God which was given to me, as
a wise master builder I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But
let each one take heed how he builds on it. For no other foundation can anyone
lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if anyone builds on
this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each
one’s work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be
revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is.
If anyone’s work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. If
anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet
so as through fire.”
I Corinthians 3:9-15 NKJV
I love that the passage tells us we are “God’s fellow workers”! And we are warned that we should “each one take heed how he builds on it.”
We are not called to inactivity! So, I will add to my usual “when in doubt, fill out...”, with this... “and find out!” Find ways you can help the team reach its goal!!!
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