This time of year is high noon sports season. Post season baseball, leading up to the World Series. NFL games are the reason no one stays after church for coffee hour anymore. Football is also why any board meeting scheduled for Monday night is doomed. It is the full moon time for the “Friday Night Lights” of high school football, and Saturday mornings are filled with small-fry soccer games. Every possible form of competition is in high gear. It seems that as the temperatures begin to dip, head-to-head, whose-in-first races are on the rise.

Everyone wants to be a top dog, not a resident of the bottom of the barrel. That is human nature. But that is not the only way human beings relate to each other. In Genesis a marvelous unique blueprint outlines an alternative structure for human relation…