What Remains When the Crowd Stops Counting
Chapter 1: The Scoreboard We Carry Home The alarm goes off at 5:12 in the morning, but the first thing many people reach for is not the light switch. It is the phone. Before the feet hit the floor, the mind is already checking whether someone answered the email, approved the request, noticed the extra work, changed the schedule, or decided that the place we have been standing still belongs to us. We call it staying informed, but sometimes we are really asking a deeper question before the day has even begun: Am I still valuable today? That question sits underneath the fictional story of Jesus serving as an assistant coach for a professional football team, and it is the reason the story reaches far beyond sports. The faith-based story about Jesus becoming an assistant coach may begin with a surprising idea, but the deeper subject is painfully familiar. What happens when a man has spent most of his life believing that love, respect, and belonging must be earned through performance? What ...