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Today's talk comes from Pastor Louis Giglio, and it's a continuation of a series entitled Powerful.

You may have heard him share in one of our gatherings, but Grant Partric leads up our student ministry here,

Passion City Church heads up to team that leads the rising every month, he and his wife Maggie,

and he's told many, many times the story of his life. He was like a lot of us. He grew up with a dream.

And Grant's dream was to play professional tennis. Now, I'll mention later and I have in time.

I had that same dream. The difference was, Grant actually was good enough to accomplish that dream.

He grew up going to the Prestige of Stan Smith Academy. He had given really his life at the high school era to playing tennis.

And he was succeeding in that goal and on the way to that mission. But like a lot of us in life, he had a little bit of a bump on the road.

He ended up having surgery on his shoulder by the renowned orthopedic surgeon James Andrews.

He did the surgery on Grant. Grant did what a lot of us have done. He didn't give up. He rehabbed. He said, I'm going to keep going. I've got a goal. I'm going to keep moving forward.

Until he re-injured his shoulder and had another procedure on that shoulder. And then that happened again. And then that happened again.

And eventually Grant Partrix dreamed and all the sweat and all the tears and all the rehab and all the energy and all the investment in being a professional tennis player died.

And when it died, he said, I want to stay in the game. So he became a coach in one of the great academies here in Atlanta.

He's coached a lot of young players, some of which are now playing collegiate tennis. But Grant Partrix isn't at the BB&T playing this week.

He isn't anywhere on the challenger tour around America. He hasn't made it into the ATP.

No, he's leading your middle schoolers and your high schoolers at Passion City Church today. He's going to be teaching in middle school today.

And he is the visionary behind the rising, which fills this place up with teenagers. And he is a leader in this house. And by the grace of God, he's going to be one of the great leaders in our house for a long, long time to come.

So it's easy for me since I didn't have surgery by Dr. James Andrews to say, thank goodness Grant Partrix shoulder gave out on him because we got a good one at Passion City Church.

Now, I know you're like, I don't know if I should clap for that or not. I'm clapping for a guy's shoulder injury. You're not really clapping for that.

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