Hey my friends I'm Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and I like to play

basketball. I'd like to play basketball for a long time I was horrible at it as a kid but I

could see why people would be into it and so I put a lot of energy into trying to

understand the game better and I would like to think that I improved and I played a bunch of organized ball and unorganized ball.

And one of the things that happens when you play a lot with your friends is you get to know their strengths and weaknesses.

You figure out what they do on the court

and you learn that when it's time to win like this guy is going to do that this girl's going to do this thing.

And I was playing one time up at the YMCA with some people I didn't know and I was playing with a

dude who can just take over a game and he wasn't doing it. He wasn't doing the thing that

he does well.

So we had this little aside for a moment and in this brief sidebar I was like,

dude, why aren't you doing the thing?

Just dominate.

I know what you have in your arsenal and it's really effective and you're obviously

choosing not to use it and I don't get that. And I remember my buddy was like

like I don't know these guys were playing with very well but that kid right there

he needs a win and he can't feel like he got it

cheap so we're gonna play hard but I'm not gonna do that thing and I was like oh okay

and the point was that yeah of course he could do this other thing but he had another

set of motives that weren't immediately evident to me and I had to ask him what the

deal was in order to get on the same page with him in terms of why he wasn't pulling

the trigger on the awesome stuff I knew that he could do.

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