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BECOMING A Champion for Christ!

BECOMING A Champion for Christ!. “…let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.” Hebrews 12. 2012 Olympiad

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BECOMING A Champion for Christ!

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  1. BECOMING A Champion for Christ! “…let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.” Hebrews 12

  2. 2012 Olympiad Over the last week, millions have watched with awe the performances of the athletes who have participated in the 2012 Olympiad.

  3. The Attraction of Athletics There is so much about athletics that mimics life. Telescopes years of true life experience into a few minutes.

  4. ABC’s Wide World of Sports Who can forget Jim McKay’s, “The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.”

  5. The Hebrews Letter’s Challenge The writer challenges us to ‘run with endurance the race that is set before us.’

  6. Hebrews 12:1-2 “Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with…

  7. Hebrews 12:1-2 …endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the…

  8. Hebrews 12:1-2 …shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.”

  9. How can we run that race with endurance?

  10. Choose Well Each of us is in a race, the question is which one? “Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.”Romans 8:37

  11. Choose Well If you engage Christ you can be victorious in the most important race!

  12. Train Well Develop a spiritually athletic mindset & regimen!

  13. Train Well “Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it. And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown.” 1 Corinthians 9:24

  14. Focus Well It is easy to become discouraged, distracted or even to totally fall away!

  15. Focus Well “Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 3:13-14

  16. Finish Well A Golf Maxim “It’s not how you drive, but how you arrive!

  17. Finish Well “For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing.”2 Timothy 4:6-8

  18. A Great Story of the 2012 Olympiad American Gold Medalist Diver David Boudia

  19. Finish Well “As Boudia began to rely more on his Christian faith, he found a greater peace within himself. He always knew he wanted to be an Olympian. But after 2008 the goal became clear. ‘What I wanted to be was this,’ he said, looking down at his gold medal.” (USAToday online, 8-12-2012)

  20. So How Will You Finish? Who or What Will You Choose to Run For? Will You Train Well, Stay Focused & Faithful to the Goal? Will You Finish Well?

  21. So How Will You Finish? “…let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith…”

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