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on a job well done. Instead of passively
receiving that compliment, Stagg
coached that young reporter. He said
in his straightforward manner, “I won’t
know how good a job I did for twenty
years. That’s when I’ll see how my boys
turned out.”
As you might imagine, Amos Alonzo
Stagg was inducted into the College
Football Hall of Fame. What you
might not know, however, is that he
was inducted as both a player and a
coach. But it gets even better. Stagg
was inducted into the Basketball Hall
of Fame too! In fact, Amos Alonzo
Stagg coached football, basketball, and
baseball at the University of Chicago.
He actually turned down six offers
to play professional baseball, but he
helped a lot of future major leaguers
with another one of his inventions—the
batting cage!
It’s measured by every blessing we
bestow. The relationship between Elijah
and Elisha prototypes what the double
blessing is all about. After receiving
Elijah’s mantle, Elisha flips the blessing
by turning it into twenty-eight miracles
for others! In the process, Elisha
becomes Elijah’s legacy. Elijah was
Elisha’s double portion. And Elisha was
Elijah’s double blessing. Whose double
portion are you? And who is your double
blessing?
Excerpted from DOUBLE BLESSING. Copyright © 2019 by
Mark Batterson. Published by Multnomah, an imprint of
Penguin Random House LLC.
Legacy isn’t measured by what we
a c c o m p l i s h i n o u r l i fe t i m e s . I t ’s
measured by our coaching tree, our
mentoring chain. It’s measured by the
fruit we grow on other people’s trees.
It’s measured by the investments we
make in others that are still earning
compound interest twenty years later.
Mark Batterson
Mark Batterson is the author of 15 books including Double
Blessing: How to Get It. How to Give It. (from which this
above excerpt was taken), Whisper, and the USA Today
bestseller Chase the Lion. He’s the founder and lead
pastor of National Community Church (NCC), one church
with seven campuses throughout Washington, D.C.
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