Later Tubby. Good luck with the new job.
I feel for the guy, really, I do. Maybe he wasn’t doing all that the fans were expecting, but we have to remember that he was serving in the most demanding coaching position in the world. Not in the NCAA, not in the USA, but in the world.
I mentioned that there were some similarities between coaching and leading a church. Let’s talk about the differences today, shall we?
I don’t recruit the players. I take the ones that God sends me.
I can’t make anyone come to practice. Wednesday night studies, occasional seminars, and Sunday School classes are optional.
I can’t make anyone follow the training regimen. Folks don’t have to read the Bible, pray, fast, practice simplicity, observe stillness, or any of the other spiritual disciplines.
I can’t bench people. Okay, I can exert some influence and change some committees around. But we simply don’t throw people out of the United Methodist Church without a church trial. And I’ve never participated in one. I’ve made my expectations clear to a few folks who didn’t like them. I’m willing to bet that their choice of church was directly affected by those expectations. But I haven’t benched anyone. Its just not a possibility.
Some folks think that pastors offer a vision. They think we come up with a game plan. But that game plan, that vision comes from Scripture, which we believe comes from God. I guess this makes me more of a towel boy than anything else.
But that’s not a bad job. Jesus wrapped himself in a towel to wash feet. That towel is the forerunner of the modern day stole, the symbol of my office, the badge of my responsibility.
I wonder if they fired the UK towel boy, too.
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