{"id":5065,"date":"2022-09-16T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=5065"},"modified":"2022-09-09T17:20:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T23:20:22","slug":"discipline-and-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=5065","title":{"rendered":"Discipline and Transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Related to the deficiencies of a legalistic approach<\/a> to the Christian life is the discipline required to compete at a high level in a sport. Recently, the U.S. Open Tennis Tournament was held in New York. People don’t usually lose a tennis match because they don’t know or obey the rules of tennis. They lose because their opponent was better that day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My son David made this observation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t watch much tennis. But hey, I\u2019m on vacation and I love sports. This is Coco Gauff, #12 in the world. What\u2019s she doing? Warming up for her match? Nope. She just won her match in straight sets. She\u2019s out there with her coach working on her serve, which wasn\u2019t that good today. You wanna know what it takes to be elite? This. #PutInTheHours #RealSkillTakesRealTime\u00a0#putinthehours<\/a>\u00a0#realskilltakesrealtime<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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. (1 Corinthians 9.24, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Train yourself for godliness. (1 Timothy 4.7, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Related to the deficiencies of a legalistic approach to the Christian life is the discipline required to compete at a high level in a sport. Recently, the U.S. Open Tennis Tournament was held in New York. People don’t usually lose a tennis match because they don’t know or obey the rules of tennis. They lose … Continue reading Discipline and Transformation<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-1jH","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5065"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5068,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5065\/revisions\/5068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}