Pulling Punches – Sunday, January 12th

This Sunday’s message at RiverTown won’t pull any punches!  If a boxer is pulling punches, it means that he’s  not punching all the way through.  He or she is not trying to win!  The apostle Paul addresses this no-victory mentality in 1 Corinthians 9:23-27 and shows us how it applies to every area of our lives.  The real decision to fail always starts before the race or the fight ever begins.  The issue is never whether you succeeded or failed, but whether you raced to win and never pulled any punches!

I do all things for the sake of the gospel, so that I may become a fellow partaker of it.  24 Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win. 25 Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They then do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. 26 Therefore I run in such a way, as not without aim; I box in such a way, as not beating the air; 27 but I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified. 1 Corinthians 9:23-27 (NASB)

All For Jesus,

Pastor David Rathel

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