heart rate, and how long it took me to advance to the optimum rate for me to benefit from the activity. They used a treadmill and at regular intervals increased the pace and the angle of incline. It was no problem walking slowly on the flat, but quite a different matter running flat-out uphill. In the spiritual realm, how well do you think the average church member would do in this area of assessment? Howard Hendricks once described the local church as a football game: twenty-two people on the field,