Game of Change | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | March 14, 2023

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🗓️ 14 March 2023

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0:00.0	Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.
0:10.0	Our reading was written by Patricia Rabin, and she titled it Game of Change.
0:16.5	The Handshake spoke volumes.
0:20.0	On a March night in 1963,
0:22.6	two college basketball players, one black, one white,
0:27.6	defied the hate of segregationists and shook hands,
0:32.6	marking the first time in Mississippi State's history
0:35.6	that its all-white men's team played against
0:39.3	an integrated team.
0:42.1	To compete in the Game of Change against Loyola University Chicago in a national tournament,
0:49.4	the Mississippi State Squad avoided an injunction to stop them by using decoy players to leave their state.
0:58.3	Loyola's black players, meantime, had endured racial slurs all season, getting pelted with
1:05.4	popcorn and ice and faced closed doors while traveling. Yet the young men played.
1:12.8	The Loyola Ramblers beat the Mississippi State Bulldogs,
1:16.9	61 to 51, and Loyola eventually went on to win the NCAA National Championship.
1:25.3	But what really won that night?
1:28.2	A move from hate toward love.
1:31.9	As Jesus taught,
1:34.1	Love your enemies.
1:36.0	Do good to those who hate you.
1:39.3	God's instruction was a life-changing concept.
1:43.4	To love our enemies as Christ taught, we must obey
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