Pete Rose, Dikembe Mutombo, Doubting Thomas & Building a Legacy

Oct 3, 2024

This week marked the deaths of two sports icons, Pete Rose and Dikembe Mutombo. Both of them achieved incredible accomplishments and accolades as athletes, but they also have drastically different things they'll be remembered for. Despite his amazing baseball career, Rose will mostly be remembered for unfairly gambling on baseball games, while Mutombo is being praised for his humanitarian work.

Legacies are tricky. We all do good and bad things, so what "sticks," and who decides how we're remembered? The Bible is full of characters who get branded either "good" or "bad" based on one or two events, and they're not always fair labels.

So what can we learn? How should we live with legacy in mind, and how should we view and label others? Pastor Joe has helpful insight in this week's episode of Trending.

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