The House Program is a competition that allows students to take responsibility and achieve together.

Competition, responsibility, and achievement are all great things, but all of them can also be warped and misused. In light of Wilberforce’s House Cup win, this article will examine how we process and understand competition. Wilberforce students now need to reflect on why competition is a good thing, and how it can be misused.

Why competition is a good thing

Wayne Grudem writes, “God has created us with a desire to do well, and to improve what we are able to do. Competition spurs us on to do better, because we see others doing better and we decide we can do that too.

Competition brings many opportunities to glorify God, as we try to use our talents to their full potential and thus manifest the God-like abilities that he has granted to us, with thankfulness in our hearts to him.

Competition also enables us individually to demonstrate fairness and kindness toward others, even those with whom we compete.”

Wilberforce students, ask yourselves - is competition driving me to do better? Am I thanking God for the gifts and abilities He has given me? And I loving those I am competing against?

But we know competition can also be misused…