I love this picture… the player from Tennessee had fallen and all 4 of his teammates that were on the floor, sprinted to him to help him up! On that particular play, the player that had fallen had just taken a charge… he got ran over by a player on the opposing team…
Sounds a bit like life doesn’t it? Do you sometimes feel like you have been “run over’… or maybe you just messed up and “tripped”? Would you welcome teammates that were concerned with helping you up?
Why are those players helping up their teammate? In basketball, there can many reasons, starting simply with team camaraderie (teamwork)… yet it also allows for the fact that the fallen player expends less energy getting up when there is help… which benefits the team.
I read an article about the picture of the players helping up their teammate and loved a couple of the observations… Coach Rick Barnes (who happens to coach from his Biblical/Christian worldview) has a motto for his team: It’s not about me!
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the concept of making the team you play for better… having a team-first attitude. That includes being there to help when a teammate has fallen! We are commanded to be there for one another… or in our pastor’s words this past week, to “run to other people’s messes.”
Therefore encourage one another and build (pick) up one another… 1 Thessalonians 5:17a (NASB)
As a general rule, we are very good at talking about love and caring in the body of Christ… but not always good at doing it. Let me share something one of Coach Barnes’s player said when talking about this motto/slogan…
“It’s not just on a wall… our guys really LIVE BY IT…” (UT assistant coach Kim English)
As a coach I often tell players, “Don’t tell me, show me!”
Let’s get busy sprinting to others’ needs!
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