A Coach's Diary

Have you ever had a teammate who always messed up and made the same mistakes over and over again? That can be frustrating, especially when you are in an environment where you have high expectations. When I was a young athlete, I would hate it when we would have to run for our teammate's mistakes. We always had one teammate who never touched the line, who always messed up the drill, and who could never remember the directions or plays. While leadership requires holding the people around you accountable to the standards that are communicated, how we hold them accountable tells a lot about who we are as people. Actress Viola Davis once said, "I don't know what the definition of grace is; only that it meets you where you are and it doesn't leave you how it found you. You want some grace in your life because you are never going to arrive perfectly at any place." In Matthew 18, Jesus gives us an example of how we should hold the people around us accountable, even if the...