Ancient moral teaching was replete with athletic metaphors, chiefly the Olympic Games. St. Paul capitalized on the footrace and boxing:
Do you not know that all who run in the stadium compete but only one receives the prize? So run that you may win. …I do not run aimlessly; I do not box like one flailing the air (1Corinthians 9.24…26).
Theology professor Holly Taylor Coolman builds on St. Paul's encouragement to be spiritually fit. She asks,“Are we up to the task?” She encourages “that the readiness to which we are called is not only the result of our own efforts. We are borne up by a power greater than our own.”
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