"A coach's greatest gift is a group of guys who want to be coached and want to be led." - Joe Mazzulla
Every great team has a great coach - a leader with a vision and the ability to communicate and teach that vision while providing feedback and holding people accountable. Every great team has humble and hungry teammates who seek knowledge, want to be coached, want feedback, and want to be held accountable.
A coach can’t be good or effective if the players aren’t coachable.
The greatest coach we have is God. God created everything, and the Bible is both a game plan and a history book. The Bible tells us how we are supposed to live while telling the story of the history of the world.
The Bible begins in Genesis by telling the story of how God created the world and everything in it, including the first two people: Adam and Eve.
God made them and planted them in the middle of the Garden of Eden to tend to it and watch over it. God gave them one rule: “You may freely eat the fruit of every tree in the garden - except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you eat its fruit, you are sure to die (Genesis 2:16-17).”
Unfortunately, Adam and Eve did not obey God's commandments. The devil came to Eve in the shape of a snake and tricked her into eating fruit from the Tree of Life. He told her that if they ate the fruit, they would be wise like God. Eve then convinced Adam to eat the fruit.
That quickly, they disobeyed the one rule God gave them.
Because they weren’t coachable and allowed a bad outside influence to get them to do what they were told not to do, life became harder for them, and their act of disobedience had devastating consequences. Sin entered the world, corrupting the perfect relationship between people and God. They were cast out of the Garden and forced to live in a world filled with pain, suffering, and death.
Don't let negative influence negatively affect your decision-making or life.
But even when they did wrong, God offered hope. In Genesis 3:15, He promised to send a Redeemer, a Savior who would one day crush the serpent's head and atone for the sins of humanity. Jesus is the Redeemer God sent for us to see how to be coachable and how to run the race of life with perfect obedience before laying down his life for the victory of mankind.
God is our ultimate coach, and He has given us clear directions for how we should live our lives through his playbook: the Bible.
One of the greatest gifts we can give God is to be coachable: Read the Bible, pray, and obey His instructions.
The more coachable we are, the better our lives will be and the more success we will have.
Reflection Questions
1 - What is your biggest takeaway from this message?
2 - When is it easiest for you to be coachable?
3 - When is it the hardest for you to be coachable?
4 - What is one thing you can do this week, month, or year to be more coachable and be a better follower of God?
My Prayer
Our Father. Thank you for the gift of life and hope. Thank you for being a great coach, and thank you for giving us all the ultimate game plan: the Bible. Please help me have the discipline to read the Bible regularly, learn from it, and follow your directions so I can live the life you have planned for me. In Jesus’ name, I pray. Amen.
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