Peyton Manning is Back. After a tumultuous year, he has found a home in Denver. He played a very solid game against Pittsburgh and lead the Broncos to victory.
One of the things that stood out in reading the article is how much Petyon’s team believes in him. They expect him to lead the team to the Super Bowl and will do everything they can to achieve it. One of the offensive linemen said, at the end of the game, we want Peyton’s uniform to still be clean. Nobody is getting to him!
I wonder what it would have been like at the church if the elders had taken a similar approach for the Shepherd. What if they saw their role as being the linemen to protect the quarterback? They would still all be on the same team playing for the same prize. Perhaps then the church could have moved down the field and scored some points instead of finding the pastor knocked down in the turf so often and acquiring nagging injuries.