ACE #332: The Draft

The next big professional sports draft day is the NFL Draft. In a few months or less, 32 teams will gather all of their executives and key stakeholders to their respective facilities or gather at the site of the Draft and prepare to pick the top college football players from across the world. These teams will analyze and critique every player’s game to make sure their organization gets the best players, who will fit their organization's direction. When Draft Night arrives, all the players will gather and wait to be selected by the team that needs their abilities to take the organization to the next level.

Good stuff, right? I know. 

Well, picture this. Jesus, as He prepares to finish the work of the Father in heaven, knows that He is going to need an assembly of believers to go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. He is going to need them to teach the ones to come (us) to obey all the commandments He has given so we can then teach others. So, He calls 12 ordinary men, with no special skills. All the skill they had was belief. His team was formed and He completed His work in the death, burial, resurrection and ascension to Heaven. And, for us to be drafted to team Jesus, we need to believe in our hearts, confess with our mouths that He died on the cross and rose in three days for us with all authority in Heaven and earth and, then, act in faith that He paid it all for us.

Great stuff, right? I know.

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