I don't know how much we've talked about this before but I love baseball I played forever as a kid and all the way into adulthood is my favorite game and I love all the strategy

and little nuance that goes into it.

And there was one time that I was learning about a certain defensive situation as a kid in what we call little league, little league baseball,

and the coaches were trying to explain the thing as we were sitting there.

They laid out a situation in which a runner got stuck in no man's land between two bases.

And they were trying to explain what you do as defenders to try to trap the runner

and keep them from making it successfully to either of those two bases.

The situation is called a rundown.

They laid it out, none of us got it, and we looked at them and we're like,

that's overwhelming, I don't know that we can ever actually do that.

There are so many implications, stands where what do we do?

And the coaches there were four of them at this time were like just watch and they went out

between second and third base and they had one of us kids go out and be the base runner that got stuck and

stranded in between and then they proceeded to weave this elaborate beautiful

braid so to speak as one would catch the ball and run at the runner and throw it over the runner's head to somebody else and then they would turn around and run the runner back the other way and they just kept falling in line behind the other so there were always two people surrounding the runner and they just kept doing it

until the the distance between the runner and the defenders tightened down and

tighten down and tightened down and there was nowhere for him to go and then we were

like oh well that's what you do okay well I was was kind of ringing my hands about this and wrestling with what it was going to look like, but now that I see you do it, I can picture that.

So we've been talking about evangelism in Matthew chapter 4, and yep, it's weird because we live in a time where people don't really

want you knocking on their door, which is probably a good thing. People don't really want

you invading their space with messages that they didn't ask for by ticking the It's okay to advertise to me box on the app or by

playing a stupid freemium game that requires you to watch ads to get more crystals or

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