The Gospel Game #1

Let me introduce you to the Gospel Game. Dan and I play this often, and I have since taught it to all the women that I've discipled and lead in Bible studies and to my friends and to really anybody who will listen. How do you play? You find a situation, object, or concept, and ask:  How does this mimic the gospel?

And that's it! The idea is that if the Lord does everything for his glory then we should be able to pick little mirror images of the gospel or another truth out of most anything. I love this game so much, not only for its encouraging and edifying nature, but because it challenges me to find truth in hundreds of situations. God's providence, goodness, and sovereignty become a lot more clear when, well, when you start looking for them!

Prepare to see Gospel Game posts pop up a lot. They're one of my favorite ways for the Lord to teach me :)  

Here's an example from yesterday-- Dan was looking through a local paper and noticed that the high school where we work had been ranked number seven for the best football team in the area. We were really excited! We love going to football games and let's face it, it's much more fun when your team wins.

Immediately, we flipped to the page listing the top ten best athletes for ten different positions-- one hundred student athletes total-- and found that for our high school... no athletes were listed. None! The seventh best team and not one athlete stood out among the rest individually. 

See 1 Corinthians 12: (I'm chopping this section down a lot to make it smaller)
"For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? "The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together."

You see, the Lord designed his Kingdom to be brought in as a team. Sure, you can be a lone missionary sent to the outbacks of Africa and have a wonderfully successful ministry, but at the end of the day you are working with a team of believers all around the world doing the same thing. We are the Church. We are together. We are the family of God. And if we are striving to leave Jesus' name behind then it should never be our individual works that stand out.

Only His.

Only the team's. Only the Kingdom's.

And in the end of days, we will come out victorious :):)

Agape,

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