Advice on Epistle for Specific Topic

[RipCityLameR]

Ok, so a brief background...I just graduated from a Christian university, and played soccer 4 years there. Each year the team got worse, but the attitudes got better, there were a lot of growing pains. After graduating, I became an assistant coach. Now, long story short and a few roadblocks later, I've realized that God really wants me to pour my effort into ministry within this team. We're going to be working through Matthew 5-7 throughout the season in a weekly Bible study, but we want to do something on the Sundays in which we'll be on the road (4ish times during the season). We would like the topic to basically be the idea that you're the same person, the same Christian whether you're in a soccer game, at church, with friends, with parents, wherever. I'm wondering if you guys have any advice on good passages or more broadly, epistles for this.

Thanks!

 

[CryptoLutheran]

1 Corinthians 7 somewhat deals with the notion of being a Christian in whatever station of life you find yourself: married, unmarried, circumcised, uncircumcised, slave, free, etc. It doesn't matter where you are in life, one's calling as a Christian applies universally.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[St_Worm2]

Hey RipCity, first off, welcome to CF .. I hope you'll find it a place you can grow in Christ ... and be able to help others to do the same!!

As to your request for a portion of the Bible to study with your team, the Epistle to the Philippians came immediately to mind. For instance, Paul writes:

"Conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or remain absent, I will hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel" Philippians 1:27

Therefore if there is any encouragement in Christ, if there is any consolation of love, if there is any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion, make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose. Philippians 2:1-2​

Whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ. More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ, and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith, that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death; in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, have this attitude; and if in anything you have a different attitude, God will reveal that also to you; however, let us keep living by that same standard to which we have attained. Philippians 3:7-16​

Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things. The things you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you. Philippians 4:8-9​

Yours and His,
David