And the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.
2 Timothy 2:2
In preparing to run a relay race athletes practice the baton hand-off again and again. A fumbled, or illegal, baton pass can disqualify the entire team from that particular race. Once a very strong runner was substituting the first leg of such a race. Knowing that he could run the whole race faster than any of the opposing team could run their sections he refused to pass the baton. Finishing well ahead of the next place runner he beamed at his coach, looking for approval only to find that he had, single-handedly, lost the race for his team. This is what Paul tells Timothy: "Don't just train runners- Train baton passers." The Church doesn't need more heroes, it needs more believers passionately passing "the baton" of God's word through the day by day process of discipleship.
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