R.C. Sproul

And those three words that are represented by these initials M-A-P are the words motivated ability pattern.

Motivated ability pattern.

Now, let's look at what are we talking about here.

Well, we know what patterns are.

We know what abilities are.

and we know what motives are or motivation.

Now the theory here in this system is that everybody has certain patterns in their life and certain abilities.

Everybody has ability to do something if it's only tie your shoes.

We also have abilities that we are not motivated to use.

That is that we can do things well, the problem is we hate doing them.

even though we have the ability to do them.

And so now we're talking about non-motivated abilities.

Now we also can talk about motivated non-abilities, where people may have a great desire to perform a certain task and have no ability for it.

You know, when I was a kid, I played just about every sport there was.

I played football.

I played baseball.

I played basketball.

I played hockey.

I boxed.

I played tournament ping pong.