Run the Play
Oklahoma and Oklahoma State have had two of the best
offenses in the nation for several years.
It is only possible because of the ingenuity of the coaches. It is amazing their ability to call the right
play at the right time. They design
plays that are able to catch the defense off guard. They get the ball into the hands of their
playmakers with the right blockers in front of them where they turn a short run
into a long touchdown. However, no
matter how great the play call was it is up to the players to run the play and
make the most of it.
One of the struggles in churches is we have lots of
ingenious plays being called. We dream
up great ministry and outreach ideas that are certain to draw many to a place
for them to hear the Gospel or a new discipleship class that we think could
help people grow in their walk with Christ.
The problem becomes that they are never run. We hold on to the ideas because we think they
need more planning, better funding or we are not sure we will have enough
workers to pull it off. So, these great
ideas are sat on and the play is never run.
Bob Mayfield posted on his blog, www.bobmayfield.com,
a great video clip of J.D. Greear encouraging us to run the play.
This is what it means to have faith. James said in James 2:17 “faith by itself, if
it does not have works, is dead.” Faith
is action. We can talk about ministry,
plan ministry and even budget ministry but if we do not take action we are not
living in faith. Let us not think we
have to have every question answered and every scenario accounted for before we
step out in faith. If we had all the
answers it would not be faith. The only
way we will accomplish big things for God is to listen to the plays he calls
and run the play.
Comments