Facing the Giants

00:41:19,769 --> 00:41:22,563 I think this applies to all of life, not just football. 557 00:41:23,398 --> 00:41:24,899 Well, that's my point. 558 00:41:27,860 --> 00:41:29,153 Ten bucks to the person who can tell me... 559 00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:30,822 ...who won the state championship a decade ago. 560 00:41:31,447 --> 00:41:33,324 - Walker Jennings. - No. 561 00:41:33,491 --> 00:41:34,909 North Metro. 562 00:41:35,076 --> 00:41:37,620 Stop guessing. You know it or you don't. 563 00:41:38,246 --> 00:41:41,082 - How about five years ago? - Richland? 564 00:41:41,499 --> 00:41:43,501 That was three years ago. 565 00:41:43,876 --> 00:41:45,920 You can't remember, can you? 566 00:41:47,296 --> 00:41:50,008 Leads me to ask a couple of questions. 567 00:41:50,258 --> 00:41:51,718 What's the purpose of this team? 568 00:41:52,427 --> 00:41:53,886 Win ball games. 569 00:41:54,053 --> 00:41:55,221 GRANT: Then what? 570 00:41:55,388 --> 00:41:57,557 We get a trophy. And people talk about us. 571 00:41:58,099 --> 00:42:00,768 Maybe. For a while. Then what? 572 00:42:01,436 --> 00:42:03,771 I don't know. Get a scholarship... 573 00:42:03,938 --> 00:42:07,442 ...play for college and coach Little League. 574 00:42:07,608 --> 00:42:08,860 [PLAYERS LAUGH] 575 00:42:09,027 --> 00:42:12,321 What are you getting at, Grant? You think we're just wasting our time? 576 00:42:12,488 --> 00:42:14,782 If our main goal is to win football games, then yes. 577 00:42:14,949 --> 00:42:16,701 You don't want us to win games? 578 00:42:16,868 --> 00:42:18,411 No. 579 00:42:18,578 --> 00:42:20,955 Not if that's our main goal. 580 00:42:21,372 --> 00:42:24,709 Winning football games is too small a thing to live for. 581 00:42:24,876 --> 00:42:26,711 And I love football as much as anybody. 582 00:42:27,462 --> 00:42:31,382 But even championship trophies will one day collect dust and be forgotten. 583 00:42:33,634 --> 00:42:36,637 It's just that so far all this has been about us... 584 00:42:36,804 --> 00:42:40,641 ...how we can look good, how we can get the glory. 585 00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:44,854 The more I read this book... 586 00:42:45,646 --> 00:42:47,899 ...the more I realize life's not about us. 587 00:42:48,775 --> 00:42:51,819 We're not here just to get glory, make money and die. 588 00:42:51,986 --> 00:42:54,822 The Bible says that God put us here for him. 589 00:42:54,989 --> 00:42:57,033 To honor him. 590 00:42:57,742 --> 00:43:00,161 Jesus said the most important thing you could do with your life... 591 00:43:00,328 --> 00:43:03,498 ...is to love God with everything you are and love others as yourself. 592 00:43:04,165 --> 00:43:08,127 So if we win every game and we miss that, we've done nothing. 593 00:43:08,753 --> 00:43:11,047 Football then means nothing. 594 00:43:12,048 --> 00:43:15,093 So I'm here to present you a new team philosophy. 595 00:43:15,635 --> 00:43:19,347 I think that football is just one of the tools we use to honor God. 596 00:43:19,514 --> 00:43:21,849 So you think God does care about football? 597 00:43:22,016 --> 00:43:24,477 I think he cares about your faith. 598 00:43:24,644 --> 00:43:26,896 He cares about where your heart is. 599 00:43:27,063 --> 00:43:30,024 If you can live your faith out on the football field, then, yes, God cares about football... 600 00:43:30,191 --> 00:43:31,818 ...because he cares about you. 601 00:43:32,276 --> 00:43:35,363 He sent his son Jesus to die for us so we could live for him. 602 00:43:35,530 --> 00:43:37,490 That's why we're here. 603 00:43:38,407 --> 00:43:41,202 But, see, it's not just on the football field. 604 00:43:41,369 --> 00:43:43,955 We've gotta honor him in our relationships... 605 00:43:44,122 --> 00:43:48,751 ...in our respect for authority, in the classroom... 606 00:43:49,335 --> 00:43:52,380 ...and when you're at home alone surfing the Internet. 607 00:43:57,093 --> 00:44:00,888 I want God to bless this team so much, people talk about what he did. 608 00:44:01,055 --> 00:44:03,558 But it means we gotta give him our best in every area. 609 00:44:03,724 --> 00:44:07,687 And if we win, we praise him. And if we lose, we praise him. 610 00:44:07,854 --> 00:44:12,483 Either way, we honor him with our actions and our attitudes. 611 00:44:13,276 --> 00:44:16,487 So I'm asking you, what are you living for? 612 00:44:19,282 --> 00:44:22,243 I've resolved to give God everything I've got... 613 00:44:22,410 --> 00:44:24,871 ...then I'll leave the results up to him. 614 00:44:26,747 --> 00:44:28,916 I wanna know if you'll join me. 615 00:44:30,251 --> 00:44:33,296 Your attitude's like the aroma of your heart. 616 00:44:33,462 --> 00:44:36,549 If your attitude stinks, it means your heart's not right. 617 00:44:37,592 --> 00:44:40,553 - He sure...