The
film gripped me for two reasons: I love
sports dramas and I love true stories about hard working pioneers!
A
pioneer is a pathfinder, initiator and trailblazer, someone who is willing to
take the initiative for change. A
pioneer is someone who is willing to stand up and be counted, someone who is
willing to take a risk for the benefit of others. A pioneer is someone who is not willing to
simply ‘survive’ or settle for the ‘status quo’ but someone who sees beyond
limitations, challenges and life circumstances.
If
I were to ask you: what’s wrong with the world?
You would have something to say.
As Tim Keller, the Pastor and Author, observes ‘it’s hard to avoid the
conclusion that there is something fundamentally wrong with the world!’
My
question to you this week is this: What
are you doing about it?
There are different ways we all respond to culture: we can conform/copy it...we can complain or critique it...or we can create and change it.
Jesus
was a pioneer, He didn’t conform or complain about the culture around Him, but instead
He changed it. He was a culture creator. He wasn't willing to sit around, complain about society and then carry on with His life.
I believe that we all
have the ability and potential to change the world we live in, no matter how
big or small that change might be. Maybe
it starts with the way you think, or the way you speak. Or maybe it’s launching a new project or
initiative for the benefit of your town or city.
Whatever
it is for you…let me encourage you to go and tread a new path.
Go
and be a Billy Beane. Go and write your
own story.
