Like a coach, the pastor's biggest job is turning his team into winners. The second is keeping them winners. I've sometimes thought the reason professional football is more satisfying to follow than college ball--and I confess to loving both--is that the makeup of the college teams keeps changing as players graduate. In the NFL, they can stay around as long as they're able to play at a high level.
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But it doesn't happen quite that way.
Take the two teams everyone around here roots for, the LSU Tigers and the New Orleans Saints.
LSU will have to replace 13 starters who graduated after the 2009 season. That's 13 out of 22 key players. It's a huge task. Doubters should ask any college coach.
The Saints, who less than three weeks ago won their first-ever Super Bowl, making them champs of the NFL, should be in a better position, right? Maybe. Maybe not.
However--and this is the parallel I'm making with pastors and churches--no team stays static. People change. They age, they grow satisfied, they slack off on workouts, they want to enjoy the big money they've been making, they lose their hunger for great achievements. Their family demands grow stronger, they fall into bad habits. And, they become free agents.
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