John Piper

For that.

So, I mean, people like him, people like Aaron Gennetti, you know, is another one that I work closely with, with knife control concepts, you know, teaching at Charlotte Jiu Jitsu now, John Piper has been a huge influence on me and watching, watching the.

understand the difference between instructor and coach um nice and and what a divide that can be oftentimes right um i i've said for years now that i i consider myself um i'm a pretty good instructor not a very good coach like it's i'm i'm i think that those are two very different kind of sets of skills and um i recognize at least enough to know what my strengths and weaknesses in both of those fields are and my capacity for each one of those things but i think that um you know learning that's part of understanding whenever you're you're involved in in teaching um and sharing the information and and coaching somebody and their development in the art and I think that understanding what you are and what you aren't is a very important thing.

Yeah.

Nothing is ever wasted in service to Christ.

Many years ago, John Piper wrote a book called Don't Waste Your Life.

I think all of us would agree we don't want to waste our lives.

We don't want to come to the end and say, wow, I totally wasted my life.

This, too, speaks to a greater truth said before us in Scripture, and it's that God honors those who honor him.

God honors those who honor him.

We see that in 1 Samuel 2.30, John 12.26. God honors those who honor him, and this is another powerful incentive to a life of extraordinary devotion.

It is.