otherwise good thing drags you down, you must strip it away.”[125] To endure in the race of faith, believers must first set aside the needless baggage and useless distractions that would hold them back or slow them down. While things that weigh us down and distract us may be morally neutral, the second hindrance to spiritual endurance is not: “the sin which so easily entangles us” (Heb. 12:1). Any sin could trip us up—from the smallest “fib” to outright apostasy. We need to prepare ourselves to run