Compete for Each Other

Scott Beyer
05/02/22 - Bulletin

“If your brother sins, go and show him his fault in private; if he listens to you, you have won your brother.” (Matthew 18:15)

I like winning.  I like it a lot.  A spirit of competition has a way of enhancing an experience. Even skipping stones is improved by saying, “Who can skip the furthest?”  Gamification changes the tone so that I start thinking about achievement instead of frustration.  It flips the script.

What if we started to think about the faults of others that way, too?  What if we thought about people’s problems as a chance to win them over to Christ?  When someone injures me, I need to play the game.  Win them, redeem the relationship, and glorify Jesus.

Compete for each other, not with each other.

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