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
  1. Watch the video together or invite someone to summarize the topic.
  2. What is your initial reaction to this video? Do you disagree with any of it? What jumped out at you?
  3. Whose names are on your list of highly committed teammates? Write their names in the margin.
  4. 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)
  5. How can we who competitively pursue being first, make the choice to take the lower place and serve our teammates?
  6. Write a personal action step based on this conversation.