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Question 2

David uses the “game of ball” to argue that even the best instruction is useless without a receptive student; where have you seen your own lack of faith function less like “honest doubt” and more like an unwillingness to catch what God is throwing?

Another way to ask: David says teaching doesn’t help if the listener won’t “catch the ball.” Where has your lack of faith been more like refusing what God offers than like honest questions?

Direct Answer The transcript suggests that lack of faith can look like refusing receptivity: God may be “throwing” true instruction, but we won’t “catch” it because we aren’t willing to receive and act on it. So what feels like doubt may sometimes be resistance to being taught.

Support from Transcript:

“Playing ball depends on two things… the first player must throw… the second player must catch.”
“Teaching is best accomplished when those hearing have faith.”
“The very best instruction is useless without a receptive student.”
“Just like a magnet attracts steel, faith attracts instruction.”
He links faith to repentance: without believing something is sin, “he will not abandon it,” implying refusal can be moral, not merely intellectual.

Discussion Follow-ups Where do you consistently delay obedience until you get “more proof”? Could that be a refusal to receive instruction rather than a lack of information?

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