This book will take you on an awesome spiritual, as well as a physical excursion. It will challenge the reader to examine the core of true spiritual power within, using basketball as a visual tool. It is a user-friendly book that harmoniously illustrates succinct comparisons between fundamental free throw basketball shooting and the creation of your world. An insightful study of the Holy Bible through basketball.

To begin, as a young boy growing up in the city of Dallas, Texas in the early 60’s and 70’s, Jefferson grew up in the inner city where there were no accessible basketball courts, recreation centers, or YMCAs in the neighborhood. There were only a few kids in the neighborhood that had basketball goals in the yard, and there was only the dirt as our court. It may sound humorous, but there were some benefits to learning how to play the game in the dirt first. For instance, you are forced to learn how to dribble the ball with control, since the goal is hanging on maybe a tree or the side of your house; it might not be exactly 10 ft. as the official height should be.

Once I discovered the game on the level with rules, structure, and running plays, I was completely lost. From a religious perspective, it was like the Creation period of our world. Originally, Adam was in paradise, or what he thought was paradise because he really had nothing else to compare it to. Why was it paradise? I think it was because he understood it, this was his normal. Just like playing in the dirt was my normal. Like Adam’s world, I was free to walk around in the dirt without rules and regulations. If I needed a free throw line, we simply got a stick and drew one in the dirt.

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