Today on Summit Life with JD Greer.

How much more should we be willing to discipline our lives

for the souls of people that last forever?

The crown that we're striving for

is not having our name printed in the rafters.

What I'm striving after is the soul of my neighbor,

my coworker, or even your grandkids.

That is the principle that cuts to the noise

of all this kind of chaos.

Hey, welcome back to Summit Life with JD Greer.

As always, I'm your host, Molly Vittavitch.

Today, Pastor JD picks up the analogy

that Paul uses in chapter nine of an athlete in training

and asks us the question,

how can we run like the disciplined athletes

in pursuit of the race that God has set before us?

You know, athletes are ruthless.

They eliminate everything that stands in the way of winning.

And we should be the same way.

Whether we're looking at our personal preferences,

our worship services, or our political decisions,

even our ethnic identity,

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