This is the wrap up of Scott and Chad’s conversation.

• Men are shaped dramatically between the ages of 12 and 20. Looking back, for good or ill, what are some significant ways you were formed in those years of your life? What was lacking for you? What was invested or built into you in a good way and who made those deposits? Talk about ways you might be able to invest in the lives of young men.
• Many lessons learned early in life become important to lifelong success. Chad found a way to allow the game of football to help develop people. How can you do that through a game? Or your work? Or through the role(s) you fill in your home?
• When we get deeply involved in something—in a game, our work, school—we can find aspects of what we do get woven into our identity. We heard some great advice in this podcast: “Separate what you do from who you are.” Until 2007, the game of football was Chad’s “god”. So the Lord had to take the joy in it away for a time, until it was put in its proper place. Chad even said he was the happiest unemployed person ever when he was not defined by what he did, but who he was. Where you are today, would you feel this sense of freedom if you were to lose your job? Why or why not?
• Chad’s dad would say, “...have character, don’t be a character.” What does that mean? Take a look through the lens of the quote about character and ask yourself: How am I doing?
• Soldiers, athletes, and others who have been part of a strong team often share, in essence, “I miss the locker room.” They miss being with the other people on the team. They miss the structure and organization provided by it. And they miss the brotherhood with other players. You connect with people who have been through the same experiences you’ve been through. We need structure and brotherhood. Isolation leads to bad habits and destructive choices. How have you seen this play out in your life or in the lives of people around you?
• Expectations that people place on us can become a measuring stick that gives inaccurate results. We can even come up with some pretty tough expectations of ourselves. But Jesus met people right where they were - at their best or worst. And He invited them to take a step toward something more. Read Hebrews 10:14. What does this scripture tell us about what God does through our belief in Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross?