Remember The Titans!

[Show The Clip…..beginning where coach Boone

says we will be perfect in every aspect of the game

to the last guy doing sit ups…]

Like I said – these guys were already a pretty good football team – BUT if they wanted to be a great football team there needed to be some changes…

Listen – Central Christian is a good church – I love it, it’s awesome, there is no place I’d rather be… BUT if we want to be a great church, if we want to take Central to the next level, we are going to need to change some things.

For weeks, that clip from the Titans has run through my mind, again & again & again – and I keep trying to grab something from it… We’re gonna change the way – run, eat block, win.

AND about a week ago, it hit me… FOR us to make the transition, from a good church, to a great church – we need to change, the way we think…

Question – Do you want Central to be a great church?

Do you want her to DO great things in the kingdom?

Do you want heaven to cheer us and satan to fear us?

Do you want to be able to have an awesome victory celebration at mid-field?

I know most of you do? Well, for that to happen, it is really as simple as A-B-C…

For Central to be a great church we need to first of all

Think Attitude

Paul wrote the following word’s from his jail cell;

“Does your life in Christ give you strength?” Does his love comfort you? Do we share together in the spirit? Do you have mercy and kindness? IF SO make me very happy by having the same thoughts, sharing the same love, and having ONE mind and purpose. When you do things, do not let selfishness or pride be your guide. Instead, be humble and give more honor to others than to yourselves. Do not be interested only in your own life, BUT be interested in the lives of others…..(NCV)… Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus…(NIV)” Phil 2:1-5

Repeat; Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus (MY…)

Things at camp were not going well for the Titans, the black players and the white players were still not getting along. AND Coach Boone knew that he was at an impasse, if he didn’t do something, if he didn’t get through to them, even though there would be 2 buses full of football players, here would be no team, when they left camp… So he wakes them up at 3 am and takes them on a run through the woods, bringing them to a battlefield….

[SHOW VIDEO CLIP…..beginning when they first stop at the battlefield

and end right after coach boone says if we do not come together here on this

hoolwed ground we will be destoyed like thye were..]

Listen - If we want to be a great church – WE must think Attitude, specifically 4 attitudes…The first is;

“Team FIRST….”

“having the same thoughts, sharing the same love, and having ONE mind and purpose”

Listen - Coach Boone knew that if his guys did not come together, he knew that if they did not become one, if they did not unite, if they did not have one mind ‘team’ and one purpose ‘win’ they had no chance of being a great team. And in the clip we just watched he tried to motivate them by reminding that they were standing on hollowed ground…