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Walk the Walk - The Lombardi Effect
Intro
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Pray
pictureofdads
Father’s day is such a tricky day.
Mother’s day is pretty straight forward for us men.
We wake up, and then proceed to, hopefully, do stuff that helps you to feel loved, and forget that you are a mother in some way.
Maybe we make the bed, or make breakfast, or watch the kids for a little bit.
But we do something to help you know you are appreciated by not having to “mom” on that day.
But on father’s day, at least for me, all I want to do is be a better dad.
I don’t want that day off from being a dad, I want to cram a bunch of dad stuff in there!
And when you think about it, that is kind of what being a Christian is like for us.
Six days a week we spend our time just L-I-V-I-N…livin.
But on Sunday, we don’t want to just keep on living, no we want to dress up and get to church and cram as much Christian stuff into that couple hours as we can!
Now I mean that with all love.
But we do that.
We are never more Christian, it seems, than when we are in church on Sunday morning.
This series on James has been talking about that idea.
How we need to live our faith out in the world, to walk the walk.
But I think that Father’s day is a great time to remind us all that we all tend to do that same thing.
To treat Sunday as a day to cram instead of a day to worship and recharge.
Likewise, this day we celebrate isn’t one to just cram stuff into, but a day to celebrate the things that should always be going on between men and the world around them.
picofmen
As I said during the children’s message, fathers aren’t just those who have raised a child, or fathered a child.
No fathers are people who accept their role as a loving protector and nurturer.
Father’s are men who look after all those around them.
They stand watch and make sure that everyone gets what they need.
But they do more.
They also impart wisdom, work ethic, expectations, and perhaps most importantly - stability.
Father’s are the ones we look to as experts sometimes.
Experts at their field of work, or experts at changing a tire or changing the oil.
Experts at plumbing, or mowing the grass.
Experts at fixing appliances, or lifting heavy things.
Dad’s are supposed to be good at stuff.
And in that sea of expectations something happens to us.
We become changed.
We start to believe that we really need to be the best at things.
We start to wonder how we will keep up this charade until they graduate, right?
We wonder, and then we go about trying to get better.
So we try new things and push ourselves toward new goals.
And as we keep doing that, we eventually start to lose a grasp on those things that don’t seem as important any more.
Sure we can teach you to change a tire in 3 minutes flat, but did we forget how to just sit and hold you when you are unsure of yourself?
And when we forget that stuff, the basics, eventually we get off track.
We value the wrong stuff.
And then we start to make mistakes.
Listen, once you start messing up, even if just in your mind, it doesn’t take long to start doubting yourself, and more importantly to start getting angry and fighting everything and everyone!
[setup idea of dads, and christians, grasping a task and then forgetting the basics…have stories, keep it light…]
James 4:
I think that is a part of what James is saying here.
Because if you think about it, there is very little in modern society that we need to get that upset over!
And for the believer, there is even less than that!
Listen God has got all this in His hand, why am I so upset about it?
It is our passion that drives us.
Passion that is derived from the love of being thought of as good, or right, more than actually wanting to be or do good, or the right thing.
Being a good dad.
Being a good man.
Being a good Christian.
We would give anything to be well thought of, sometimes; anything except the thing we need to do to be well thought of.
picofvincelombardi
Vince Lombardi, is probably the best coach to ever live.
He had 5 championships in 7 years.
His methods and game plans are copied to this very day.
His name, given to the trophy that is awarded to the Super Bowl Champion every year, is a constant reminder of greatness and success.
Now Vince, he wasn’t a lovie-dubie type of coach.
There was no hand holding on his team.
If you messed up you knew it.
He insisted on perfection, and demanded that his players give everything they had on every play, whether in practice or in a game.
On one particular evening, he showed up to practice in a bad mood.
It happens.
As he watched his players, he got more and more angry.
He barked at them, saying that they had a lot to learn.
And when his frustration hit it’s peak, he held up a football above his head and shouted, “We’re starting at the beginning.
Gentlemen, this is a football.”
It was then, by the way, that Max McGee interrupted him, asking, “Coach, can you not go so fast?”
Sometimes we need to go back to the basics, no matter how good we might think we are.
Not only that, sometimes we have to get brought back to earth a little bit, to understand that we aren’t quite as good as we think we are!
That happened to Hall of fame guard Jerry Kramer.
He was amazing at what he did.
One of the best in the game.
But one day, Vince had to get in his face.
Kramer recalled coach saying, “The concentration period of a college student is 5 minutes, in high school it is 3 minutes, in kindergarten it’s 30 seconds.
And you don’t even have that, mister.
So where does that put you?”
Kramer was obviously frustrated by this mans lack of faith in him, and went back to the locker room thinking about quitting football altogether.
When Lombardi finally came into the locker room, he went over and put his hand on his shoulder, and then tousled his hair and said, “son, don’t you know that someday you’re going to be the best guard in football?”
Sometimes you have to be brought low to remember where you are going and what you have the potential to do.
You have to unlearn what you have learned in the hopes that you can rebuild everything the right way.
Getting those basics right first.
That is the Lombardi Effect.
When you focus on the basic things, you can achieve your greatest potential.
[move from there to how we as men need to move back to basics with our faith…]
picofxianmen
Men, church, this happens to us all.
And to be honest it needs to happen!
I remember when it happened to me.
I was growing in the faith quickly after I was baptised.
At least I thought I was.
I was learning a bunch and I was experiencing a bunch.
And pretty soon, I started to think I was pretty smart!
You ever get that way?
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