I Timothy 6:12

Fight the Good Fight of the Faith 

This is an example of a Fight Club. We can create a text system for your team, school, church, sports ministry or like minded community. It takes 25 or more to get started and an email to Brian.davidson@navigators.org.

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Con’t from our week one text thread - season one - Beliefs Drive Behaviors.

The parent’s emotion is real, but the belief or conclusion beneath it may not be true. My parenting charge is to shepherd my child's heart and honor their soul. Their character, faith, and relationship with God matter far more than her athletic ability. The parent's emotion is real, but the belief or conclusion beneath it may not be true. See if any of these hit home. And please remember awareness and grace leads to transformation.

Emotion: "I feel anxious because my child isn't playing much."

The lie: "If I don't intervene, my child will be overlooked and fall behind."

The truth: I can advocate appropriately without trying to control every outcome. God is at work in my child even through waiting, disappointment, and an unwanted role.

Emotion: "I feel angry about the coach's decision."

The lie: "Because I disagree, the coach must not value my child-and I'm justified in reacting harshly."

The truth: I may not understand or agree with the decision, but I can seek understanding with humility, speak respectfully, and refuse to dishonor the coach.

Emotion: "I feel embarrassed when my child makes mistakes."

The lie: "My child's performance reflects on me as a parent."

The truth: My child is not an extension of my reputation. Their mistake is an opportunity for growth-and for me to offer grace, security, and encouragement.

Emotion: "I feel jealous when another child succeeds."

The lie: "Their success threatens my child's future."

The truth: Another athlete's success does not diminish my child's value or limit God's purposes. I can celebrate that athlete genuinely and help my child do the same.

Emotion: "I feel disappointed because my child isn't as motivated as I want them to be."

The lie: "If I apply more pressure, I can make them want it."

The truth: I cannot transform my child's heart. I can listen, ask good questions, model faithfulness, establish appropriate expectations, and entrust their growth to God.

Emotion: "I feel afraid that my child won't earn a scholarship."

The lie: "If this opportunity is lost, their future will be diminished."

The truth: My child's future is not secured by a roster spot or scholarship. God's purpose for their life is larger than sports and cannot be defeated by an athletic disappointment.

A helpful parent reflection:

My emotion may be revealing what I love, fear, want, or believe-but it does not automatically tell me what is true. I can bring the emotion to God, uncover the belief beneath it, and respond according to His truth.

Paul Tripp’s pathway of transformation begins with honest awareness—asking God to reveal the beliefs, desires, fears, and idols shaping our hearts. This awareness leads us to the grace and truth of Jesus, where we are forgiven, loved, and renewed rather than condemned. As God’s truth takes root, our hearts are transformed, producing new attitudes, words, and behaviors. Over time, this transformation becomes a generational legacy as we pass a living, authentic faith to our children and grandchildren.

STAY IN THE FIGHT

The battle is not the scoreboard. The real battle is for the hearts and minds of our children.

Sports can shape character, strengthen resilience, and build joy — but it can also become an idol that consumes our families, fractures identity, fuels anxiety, and blinds us to what matters most.

The Playbook of Deception helps us recognize the spiritual war happening in the everyday moments of youth and school sports — the car ride home, the expectations, the comparisons, the pride, the pressure, the fear of falling behind.

This book is a call to parents, coaches, and grandparents to stay awake. Stay intentional. Stay in the fight. Not a fight against our children, but a fight for them.

A fight for:

  • Hearts anchored in Christ

  • Identity secured by the gospel

  • Joy rooted in something no scoreboard can touch

  • Humility, character, and love that shine in victory and defeat

This isn’t about withdrawing from sports. It’s about showing up differently. With clarity. With peace. With purpose. With the aroma of Christ.

This is your invitation to lead — from the stands, the sidelines, and the living room. The enemy has a strategy. Now, so do we.

Stay in the fight.

Coming in 2027….

Why Gather for Fight Club Discussions?

Because truth grows best in community. The Playbook of Deception and The Playbook of Truth aren’t just books to read—they’re invitations to wrestle with reality together. Over twelve weeks of forty-minute sessions, you’ll explore how the enemy deceives, how Christ redeems, and how families can live with gospel clarity in the world of sports. These groups are built around Truth. Transparency. Transformation. As parents and believers open Scripture and share their stories honestly, God reshapes hearts, restores priorities, and renews purpose—on the field and at home.

Join a Movement

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The Playbook of Deception exposes how the enemy uses youth and school sports culture to distort identity, fuel pride, divide families, and shift our worship away from God. Through gripping letters and real-life reflection questions, this book is designed to wake up families, coaches, and churches to what is happening on the sidelines, in locker rooms, and in our own hearts.

This isn’t just a book to read. It’s a spark. A conversation starter. A shift in culture. A new way of showing up in sports — as parents, coaches, leaders, and followers of Jesus. Three practical next steps that you can do to help us start a vital movement of the gospel in youth sports communities, cities and across the country. Here are practical next steps you can take to both join and/or grow the movement.

Step 2 — Join a Fight Club

Fight Club

1 Timothy 6:12 — “Fight the good fight of the faith…”

Join a Club or Start One.

A Fight Club is designed for Fathers & Mothers to fight for the hearts of their families in the world of youth and school sports. In our 2026 - 27 school year these clubs are connected to Christian schools, churches, youth sport ministries, sport clubs and like minded communities. Our study this year is called Beliefs Drive Behavior. We help parents identify lies so that they can build their sport parenting on truth. This season we will mainly be focusing on 3 of the biggest lies in the world of sports. The goal is transformational sport parenting.

Why do we need fight clubs?
To keep the conversation going. To create a vital movement of transformational sports parents. Because we need each other. God did not create us to follow Jesus, parent, or navigate competitive sports alone. We need encouragement, truth, prayer, accountability, and other parents willing to say, “Let’s keep our eyes on Christ together.”

What is the purpose of a Fight Club?
To create a space where parents can grow in awareness, receive grace and truth, experience heart transformation, and build a generational disciple-making legacy in their homes, schools, churches, communities, and cities.

Using Paul Tripp’s pathway of transformation, Fight Clubs help parents:

1. Grow in Awareness
What is really going on in my heart as a sports parent? What’s it like to be sport parented by me? Why do I sport parent the way we do?

2. Receive Grace and Truth
What lies am I believing, and what truth does God’s Word speak?

3. Pursue Heart Transformation
How is God changing what I love, fear, crave, and chase?

4. Build a Generational Legacy
How can sports become a tool for discipleship in my home?

Fight Club is not about perfect parents. It is about parents learning to love God most, like sports rightly, and fight the good fight of faith together.

In 2026 we will be providing content through our text communication system. You will receive 3-4 texts per week. You are encouraged to talk with others in your community with how you’re being encouraged, taught, challenged and changed by the Spirit of God & the Word of God. We also have gatherings with special guests and teachers, testimonies and more if your in the local lynchburg area. Fight Clubs in other States we offer zoom gatherings for now with the hopes of hosting gatherings in your city in the 2027-2028 school year.

To start a Fight Club email Brian.davidson@navigators.org so that you can receive your own text thread number. You need 25 or more families to get started.

First step is to Read the Playbook of Deception.

Commit to learning precepts, principles and new practices from the Playbook of Truth. Create your Personal Family Playbook to help you navigate your decision making and to keep you focused on training up your children in the way to go (Proverbs 22:6)

It’s time to rally together.


To be intentional about making disciples.


To live on mission in the sports arena God has placed you.


Together, let's Love God. like sports.