Challenge of the Week: Host a Spiritual Get-Together
As athletes, coaches, parents, and families, we spend countless hours together every week. We sit in bleachers, ride to tournaments, attend practices, and compete on game days. Yet despite being around people constantly, many of us rarely slow down long enough to have meaningful conversations about life, faith, and what God is doing in our hearts.
This week’s Four One Sports Challenge is simple:
Host a Spiritual Get-Together.
Invite your teammates, family members, friends, coaches, or neighbors over for an evening focused on faith, fellowship, and connection. Share a meal, spend time talking, pray together, and watch the movie Jesus Revolution.
Before anyone sits down, place all cell phones in a basket, another room, or somewhere completely out of sight.
Why?
Because the average person checks their phone dozens of times per day. Even when we’re not actively using it, notifications, text messages, social media alerts, and the temptation to scroll constantly pull our attention away from the people sitting right in front of us.
When phones are present, conversations become shorter. Attention becomes divided. Opportunities to connect are missed.
But when distractions are removed, something powerful happens. People open up. Friendships deepen. Families communicate. Teammates learn more about one another. Most importantly, we become more available to hear from God and encourage one another in our faith.
The movie Jesus Revolution tells the true story of a spiritual awakening that swept through Southern California during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Through an unlikely partnership between pastor Chuck Smith and young evangelist Lonnie Frisbee, thousands of people encountered Jesus and experienced life-changing transformation.
One of the most powerful lessons from the movie is that revival often starts with ordinary people who are willing to gather together, seek God, and invite others into the journey.
Could that happen in your family?
Could that happen on your team?
Could that happen in your friend group?
Hebrews 10:24-25 reminds us:
“And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together… but encouraging one another.”
God created us for community. He never intended for us to walk through life or our faith alone. Some of the greatest spiritual growth happens when believers gather together, encourage one another, and create space for God to move.
So this week, turn off the distractions.
Put the phones away.
Watch Jesus Revolution.
Talk about your faith.
Pray together.
Listen to one another.
You never know how God might use one simple evening to impact a teammate, a friend, a child, or even an entire family.
Challenge Accepted?
Host your own Spiritual Get-Together this week and see what happens when people stop scrolling and start connecting.
