SPECIAL

After a day of rest it's time to get back in the game.

This is also probably the last you'll hear from me until Tuesday night (assuming I make it that far), as tonight we start the SPECIAL - a full out competition of physical exertion lasting about 20 hours with only a couple of light breaks. It's the ultimate accumulative challenge we will take part in after teaching our fifth and final principle: Victory Beyond Competition, this morning. This will challenge us as we are pushed beyond our own physical limitations and challenge us to grow as a team, and even more so as brothers and sisters in Christ here to support one another.

Students will learn that God has given all of us gifts in our lives (in this case mainly athletic gifts) so that we can use them to further His Kingdom. We'll learn of the urgency in living our lives in radical faith so that we can leave a legacy behind us. How we live today matters. No matter what our gifts are, they can be used for Christ as we surrender to Him.

We're all going to greatly need faith in God's strength to sustain us, and His love to motivate and encourage us.

I can do all things through him who strengthens me
- Philippians 4:13

Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
- Romans 5:3-5