The Gospel of Jesus Christ Works
I appreciate what BYU’s football coach, Kilani Sitake, said recently. He bore witness this way in front of 3 million viewers last Saturday : “We are a faith-based institution. We represent The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It shows that the gospel of Jesus Christ works in many things. It works in business. It works at home. It definitely works in football. We’re making it happen.” In another setting this week he said this in response to a question about money in college sports: “Looking at sports today, it isn’t the rosters with the most money that win. Culture does still matter. Culture beats strategy every time. We’re going to work culture. We’re going to work education. We’re going to work knowledge. We definitely are going to work around what we feel is the right method, which is honoring God and having a connection to something bigger than yourself. When you do that, it creates an intrinsic motivation that will be a force in itself, and you can’t measure that on a s...