The legendary Green Bay Packers coach, Vince Lombardi, never had a losing season. His accomplishments in football could fill the page.
Is there something we can learn from him that applies to our pursuit of Truth?
Yes.
Every season he began his training with the basics. In fact, it was so basic that at first you may be inclined to say it was ridiculous.
To his team of veteran players he would hold up a football in one hand and say,
" Gentlemen, this is a football."
Vince Lombardi knew the importance of getting the basics right. If you mess them up, the rest of the game falls apart.
Obviously he was right. To this day, no one disputes the superior results of his training.
You can apply this same principle to building a house. Without a firm foundation, the walls will crack.
Remember the leaning tower of Pisa?
When you ignore the basics, you don't notice it at first. But later your building begins to crumble or fall.
In regard to studying Scripture, it is my firm conviction that some of our inherited foundations are built on shifting sand. Some crucial basics were ignored.
However, from the perspective of our tiny slice of history everything appears in place - until you compare it with where we were before the tower began to lean.
One of those basics is the issue of the calendar. It seems so trivial as to be ridiculous, doesn't it?
But, as we shall see, the rejection of our Hebraic heritage has led us to make gross errors which influence the congregations of believers to this day.
It's worse than that. Some of our "basic" doctrines of the modern church are built without the perspective of a Hebraic viewpoint. Indeed,in one case, an element of faith we follow was formed out of a deliberate attempt to distance the church from our Jewish heritage.
Last post I discussed the Scriptural New Year. If you haven't read that yet, it would be a good place to start to learn the basics.
Next time we shall go on from there to an often ignored event -
Four Days with the Lamb.
Is there something we can learn from him that applies to our pursuit of Truth?
Yes.
Every season he began his training with the basics. In fact, it was so basic that at first you may be inclined to say it was ridiculous.
To his team of veteran players he would hold up a football in one hand and say,
" Gentlemen, this is a football."
Vince Lombardi knew the importance of getting the basics right. If you mess them up, the rest of the game falls apart.
Obviously he was right. To this day, no one disputes the superior results of his training.
You can apply this same principle to building a house. Without a firm foundation, the walls will crack.
Remember the leaning tower of Pisa?
When you ignore the basics, you don't notice it at first. But later your building begins to crumble or fall.
In regard to studying Scripture, it is my firm conviction that some of our inherited foundations are built on shifting sand. Some crucial basics were ignored.
However, from the perspective of our tiny slice of history everything appears in place - until you compare it with where we were before the tower began to lean.
One of those basics is the issue of the calendar. It seems so trivial as to be ridiculous, doesn't it?
But, as we shall see, the rejection of our Hebraic heritage has led us to make gross errors which influence the congregations of believers to this day.
It's worse than that. Some of our "basic" doctrines of the modern church are built without the perspective of a Hebraic viewpoint. Indeed,in one case, an element of faith we follow was formed out of a deliberate attempt to distance the church from our Jewish heritage.
Last post I discussed the Scriptural New Year. If you haven't read that yet, it would be a good place to start to learn the basics.
Next time we shall go on from there to an often ignored event -
Four Days with the Lamb.
