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Missional motivation: Running to get the prize (1 Corinthians 9:24-27)
Peter Rowan, 10 July 2016
Part of the Standalone Sermon series, Sunday Evening service
If we are to live a life of total gospel orientation – in the workplace, at home, in the community, whether in Cambodia or England, then just as for the athlete in the games, so also for us: we have to run in such a way as to get the prize. It will require preparation, perseverance and perspective.
1 Corinthians 9:24-27
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1 Corinthians 9:24–27 (Listen)
24 Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. 25 Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. 26 So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. 27 But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.
(ESV)