What does the Bible have to do with golf?  Everything!  One of my biggest hopes is that this program may be a way for you to see how alive and how pertinent God's word is in every area of life; including something as seemingly insignificant as your golf game.  Every principle that you walk through in the golf program comes directly from a principle in the Bible itself.  The first thing that I want you to know is that if you decide to go through the Life Out of Control program then be ready to do some work.  This IS NOT a simple list of scriptures that vaguely compare to the golf lessons.  This Life Out of Control program is full of "drills" and practice disciplines as well.  I never put this program together with the intention of you just reading another spiritual book to "reflect on".  It is a WORK-BOOK!  You are TO DO this program; not just read this program.  Can you imagine for example, what would happen if you just "reflected" on a golf drill - NOTHING, that's what would happen!  Before you say the Bible doesn't apply to modern day life, why don't you try applying it's principles first?

No matter where you may be spiritually I believe that this program will touch you and help you in many different ways.  If you are a devout believer then this program will show you some ways to see God's principles in a totally different way.  If on the other hand you are totally put off by anything that has to do with the Bible, Jesus, Church, etc... then let me reassure you once again; this program is optional.  However I still highly encourage you to at least check it out.  What could it hurt?  It will at least make your golf game a whole lot better, and if that's the worst thing that's going to happen then why not?!  

 There are literally hundreds of parallels.  Look at just two of the foundational aspects of Golf Out of Control and let me show you how God's word speaks directly to the same thing for your life:

At the very heart of the golf program we will explore and work through the most dominant aspect in all of golf - the need to retrain our born with instinct.  We did not pop out of the womb swinging easy to hit it far; swinging down to hit it up; etc.... 

If (as I do) you see the Bible as the source for absolute truth then you will soon discover that playing the game of life correctly (as defined by God) is not in yours or mine first nature either!  That is why Jesus Himself told us in John 3:3:

              "I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom
               of God unless he is born again."

You see scripture tells us that our nature in life is backwards as well and requires a "retraining" to experience the life that God has to offer us.  Maybe "church terms" like born-again scare you (they sure did me) well maybe this program will help you see the bible in a new way through the language of golf.

I've never met any golfer who would say; "that last bad swing I made was on purpose."  I mean think about it.  Do you ever intentionally swing wrong?  of course not.  But how often do you do so?  If you're like everyone I've ever met then that answer is more times than you'd care to admit.  In the golf program you will discover that the very nature that you were born with fights you on every swing (until you retrain that nature).

In the Bible Paul himself (one of the Bible's superstars) admitted this shared aspect of human nature in Romans 7:18

                        "I know that nothing good lives in me, that is in
                          my sinful nature.  For I have the desire to do
                          what is good, but I cannot carry it out."

If someone like Paul admits that his born-with nature is towards sin then who of us can say that we don't need any work?  The real truth is that we all do!

Again, in church you hear it as "repentance".  I say just admit the truth; you and I are screwing up doing it our way (without Jesus) and need to sign up for some lessons.

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