Last Lap Christians

Pastor Brady reminds the church that an eternal perspective is essential for joyful, faithful discipleship. Paul compares the Christian life to the Isthmian Games familiar to Corinth, urging believers to run, fight, and train like athletes who want to win. That means laying down personal rights for the sake of the gospel, exercising strict self-control, pressing through suffering, and guarding personal integrity so we are not disqualified. This message calls every believer—young or old, just starting or in the “fourth quarter”—to become a “last-lap Christian” who hears Christ say, “Well done,” not merely, “Well begun.”