Big Brown was a huge favorite to win the Triple Crown Saturday . It was suppose to be a sure thing, and every one was filled with great expectation.
The Triple Crown is the biggest award in horse racing, and it hasn’t been won for over 30 years. I guess we will have to wait at least one more.
The last baseball Triple Crown winner was Carl Yastrzemski over 40 years ago in 1967 while playing for the Boston Red Sox.
The only basketball player to average a triple double for an entire season was Oscar Robertson who did it in 1961-62. Now if a player does it just for one game, he makes the headlines in newspapers and Sport Center.
The Christian has a triple crown. Did you know that ? Every Christian is to pursue three vital relationships. The first and foremost is Intimacy with God. This includes Bible reading and study, along with prayer, tithing, and all of the spiritual disciplines. But it is even more than that. It is a true sense of awe and brokenness before God, which leads to humility and vulnerability.
The second is relationships with fellow believers in Christ. We would call it "Involvement in Community ". This is where you do life together. You share struggles, questions, joys, etc… You are not only transparent with one another, but you become vulnerable, which leads to giving permission to others to hold you accountable for specific things you know God is calling you to do.
The third is "Influence the World". Building relationships with those who have yet to come to know Christ. This is one that is usually discounted because of a misunderstanding of scripture where it tells us to not be "of the world". But Scripture says that we are to be salt and light. We live this out in two ways. First by being intentional in building relationships with unbelievers, not just for the sake of leading them to Christ, but to be blessings to them. Secondly, we are called to serve strategically through the local church in helping to serve the world.
Let me ask you a question? Do you know any triple crown Christians? Or are they as rare as they are in horsing racing, baseball and basketball .
One last question: Are you a triple crown Christian?
