
I gave the picture of someone running a long race, getting slower and slower, eventually walking, but finally finishing (hours after the winners have crossed) as a good example of what nikeo is not. Nikeo is winning, not finishing. We are not supposed to just finish the Christian race, but to win. This series explores what it means to win, to overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil, in our Christian “race.” I even said that I would “ban” the use of the phrase “Christian walk” during this series, instead calling it the “Christian race.” I closed with I Cor. 9:27, which says:
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. – I Cor. 9:27