Raising Champions: Coaching Children Into Responsible Adulthood (Spiritual Edition)

By Rufus Curry and Jr.

Non-Fiction / Self-Help / Parenting / Mentor / Education / Bible / Spiritual
 
Raising Champions is a tool that will help parents and mentors achieve two goals with one action. The book focuses on the most powerful influencer of the future of the human race...parents and mentors. The issues our youth are grappling with today are the result of the environments parents have created or environments parents allow to exist around the youth they are ordained to protect. Rampant evidence of spiritual bankruptcy, moral decay, low academic performance, promiscuity, teen pregnancy, drug and alcohol abuse and a lack of initiative and a solid work ethic are byproducts of poor parenting and a lack of a spiritual foundation. The power to change the course of lives of future generations of youth is in the hands of parents and mentors. Most parents are struggling to keep their head's above the water is true. The conditions the parents and mentors live and work under, breed a climate of complaining and bitterness and is modeled before our youth as the primary example of behavior on a daily basis.
 
* What a parent does is more powerful than what they say
* Parents with unachieved goals, raise youth with unachieved goals
* The commercial retail industry's goal is to create spend-a-holics
* You are charged to raise you children...not entertainers
* Parent's change the environment...you change the children
* The tools in this book can change your life in 60 seconds!
 
Take your God given, rightful place as a parent or mentor and you can save your life and the lives of youths you have been entrusted to Raise into Champions.

• Language: English
• Publisher: eBookIt.com
• Release date: Apr 26, 2016
• ISBN: 9780982281123

Book preview

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Chapter 1

DECISION POINT: YOUR FIRST TASK

Decide who you want to be and what you want to do for the world that God has blessed you to be born into.

Rufus Curry, Jr.

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Genesis 1:26-27

Who are you? Who? (of a person) of what character, origin, position, importance, etc.: Who does he or she think he or she is?

Question: Who are you?

Answer: I am [insert your name].

Wrong! That is your name. It was given to you, usually by the man and woman who were responsible for the conception (sexual interaction) portion of creating your physical body.

Answer: I am a [male/female].

Wrong! That is the sexual gender designation that is assigned to you by virtue of your biological configuration, scientifically represented by the chromosomes symbols XY for males and XX for female. The presence of a penis and testicles or vagina and ovaries combined with the potential power to produce sperm or eggs is not who you are; it is part of the power of physical reproduction/creation that you are responsible for.

Answer: I am a [mother, father, student, or coach].

Wrong! That is what you do as a daily function or vocation at this present period in your life. You have the ability to do many things, especially the things you set your mind to.

According to the Bible, man is an intentional creation. Man is not a mistake or the result of a scientific experiment gone foul. Man is not an accidental byproduct or was man stumbled upon in the Heavenly Host’s attempt to create something else. Man is not like Penicillin, Coca Cola, tire rubber, a microwave, the chocolate chip cookie, the pacemaker, Post-it® Notes, a Popsicle, plastic or the potato chip. Great thought was given concerning humans (And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness) and clear instructions were given about how Man and Woman would be constructed. The manner in which the Creator expected man to function was clearly laid out as well—And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

So, according to my research, we/humans are a very impressive entity. Let us look deeper into the gifts and abilities that were assigned, programmed, incorporated and hard-wired into the spiritual and physical mechanisms of man and woman. This examination will require you to literally open your mind wider in order to embark on this introspective journey for you to discover who you were truly designed and empowered to be.

Nature is fundamentally the same as it has been since the beginning of time. There are many species of flora, fauna and animals that were living and moving about the face of the earth which are not among the living today. There are also many plants and animals that are alive on present day earth that did not exist during the early days of the planet. Be it due to the ebb and flow of nature itself or man’s hand being stretched forth and exercising his God-ordained power of dominion to the benefit or detriment of our environment. The fundamental laws of nature have not changed. The laws of nature more commonly known as the laws that control time, space, gravity, electricity and creation are still the same. But, we have learned to explore the boundaries of natural law to a great extent and learn that there is more to the laws than we originally