Correlation Between Motivational Factors For Athletes And...

Furthermore, just as there are motivational factors for athletes, and that there are also different attitudes or beliefs that athletes might have towards certain facets, such as doping or wanting to be successful. It is imperative that one understands that those same factors and or facets are quite similar if not identical to the factors and or facets associated with those athletes. Going forward, there will be an in depth examination of the correlation between motivational factors for athletes and those of sport ministries. Sport ministries can be defined as, activity put on by an organization that occurs during a person’s leisure time, that has a specific purpose and or deliberate intention of assisting individuals become conscious of†¦show more content†¦As stated before, although the motivational factors are quite similar to the factors affecting athletes, I believe it to be of dyer importance to depict the motivational factors for a sports ministry from a theo logical perspective. There are four distinctive theological motivations for sport ministry and they are creation, worship, redemption, and liberty and experience. With regards to creation in sports ministry, one must understand that it consist of two different levels. XXXXXX These levels of creation can either be micro-creation or macro-creation. For example God can be glorified through sport because he created it. Therefore, anything created by God can give him praise. This is why athletes can glorify God because; they have been created by the creator (God). Consequently, a micro level of creation would be an athlete using his or her talents to be successful but, with sport ministry that individual is a mere reflection of Christ, because Christ was the one who gave said individual the gift to begin with. Genesis 1:27-28 makes references to micro-creation when it says, â€Å"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth† (KJV, 2001). Being a reflection of Christ