Covenant Church Of Tecumseh

In the 1968 Olympics, the marathon runner from Tanzania fell early in the race. He suffered a gash and internal damage to his knee and smashed his shoulder. Instead of going to the hospital, he had his knee stabilized and wrapped and the deep cuts treated. He finished the race more than an hour after the last runner crossed the finish line. When asked why, John Stephen Akhwari said, "My country did not send me 9,000 miles to start the race. They sent me 9,000 miles to finish the race." Jesus Christ didn't call us to quit on him. Jesus didn't send us into the world to quit on our faith. Jesus Christ calls us to finish the race. But as most of us know, sometimes that's tough. We all have known people who appeared to be on solid footing in their walk with Christ but then dropped out of the race. Can that happen to me? Will that happen to me? Or we've told ourselves, "That will never happen to me." Today we're going to look at how we can finish well. John 6:60-71 is a reaction to Jesus' bread of life teaching. Jo