We run the race not for a place in heaven, but we run for the prize who is the Founder and Perfecter of our faith, Jesus. - FOCUS SCRIPTURE: Hebrews 12:1-4 - “Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, (a great dense multitude of spectators in a historical sense are witnesses to how we run the race) let us also lay aside every weight,(burden, mass) and sin (hamartia: miss the mark) which clings (besetting, to prevent running) so closely, and let us run (trecho: to exert, strive hard, spend all one’s strength to attain something) with endurance the race that is set before us, (to exert ourselves like a runner in a c ...