The world of sports is full of leaders. Some leaders manipulate everyone toward their highest performance, while others encourage their teams to success. According to the bible, great leaders have 3 distinct characteristics.
Talking Points:
- Leaders put their team and coaches first. Mark 9:35
- Leaders will be imitated. Hebrews 13:7
- In leadership, influence wins over power.
Talk About It
- Watch the video together or invite someone to summarize the topic.
- What is your initial reaction to this video? Do you disagree with any of it? What jumped out at you?
- Whose names are on your list of highly committed teammates? Write their names in the margin.
- How strong are your ambitions to be the first among them? Rate your ambition on a 1-10 scale. (1 = modestly ambitious and 10 = super-ambitious)
- How can we who competitively pursue being first, make the choice to take the lower place and serve our teammates?
- Write a personal action step based on this conversation.