Don't quit just before your goal is achieved!

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Bible Lessons
For Youth -
Focused on the
Goal
Don't quit just before
your goal is achieved!

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Her goal was the California
coastline –a 34 km swim from
Catalina Island. It was no more
distant than the width of the
English Channel, a goal she had
already conquered as the first
woman to swim it from both
directions. Although she was a
seasoned long-distance
swimmer with incredible
stamina, she trained arduously
to prepare herself to achieve
her goal.

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July 4th, 1952
Millions watched on national
television, as 34 year old
Florence Chadwick began her
swim. The water was icy cold;
the fog — so thick she could
hardly see the support boats
alongside her. As the hours
passed, she was repeatedly
stung by jellyfish. Sharks had to
be driven away with rifles. Yet
she pressed on, determined to
achieve her goal.

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15 hours later
Numbed with the cold, she
was ready to give up. Her
mother and her trainer were
in a boat at her side.
“Florence. You are almost
there. Don’t give up now.”
Encouraged by her mother’s
admonition, she continued to
swim.

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Failure
Fifteen hours and fifty minutes after
she began her swim, the support
team reluctantly agreed to pull
Florence from the water. Several
hours later, after she warmed up, she
realized she had given up only a few
hundred meters from her goal! If she
had continued just a little while
longer, the waves would have carried
her to the beach. “If I could have just
seen the land for myself, I would
have made it!”. She told reporters it
was not the sharks, the fatigue, or
even the cold water that defeated
her. She had been defeated by the
fog alone. It had obscured her goal
and blinded her reason, her eyes and
her heart.

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Never give in to defeat.
1952 was the only time Florence
Chadwick ever quit. Two months
later she swam that same
channel. The water was still ice
cold and still inhabited with
sharks. Once again fog obscured
her view. But this time she
pressed on, BELIEVING that
somewhere beyond that fog, her
goal would be reached. Not only
was she the first woman to swim
the Catalina Channel, but she
beat the men’s record by two
hours!

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• What are YOUR goals?
• Have you lost sight of your
goal?
• Don’t quit just before your
goal is achieved!
• Stay Focused!
“Let us fix our eyes on Jesus,
the author and perfecter of our
faith”
- Hebrews 12:2

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Go for the Gold
Need an evangelistic Youth Camp/ Bible
Study Series with an Olympic Theme?
What is salvation all about? What does it
mean to be saved? This sports themed
Bible Study / Camp Curriculum uses the
Olympic Flag to introduce the concepts of
sin (black circle), forgiveness (red circle),
purity (white background), spiritual growth
(green circle), heaven (Yellow Circle) and
(Baptism) blue circle.
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Destined to Win
Need a Youth Camp/ Bible Study Series
on ”Running the Christian Race”?
The race as a metaphor for the Christian
life is used in several places in the Bible.
This series is a great follow up for new
Christians or to re-emphasize the basics of
our spiritual Journey in the Faith. This
Bible Study / Camp Curriculum has a
sports theme and is great for athletes as
well as a tie in to the youth Olympic
Games.
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