Team – Band, group, company, gang, partnership, squad, troop, league, unit.
The concept of a team was taken from harnessing or yoking together 2 or more animals. It was seen that when animals pulled together more could be accomplished than if one pulled alone. They could pull heavier loads & cover longer distances hence team became all about a group of 2 or more people pulling together in the same direction with a common goal.
No one can escape being in a team whether that be in a marriage, family, job or business, Church; so let’s look at some principles that will help us become a successful member of a team:
1) Team Agenda This means checking in at the door our own agenda in order to follow the team agenda. Today more than ever we live in an individualistic society where authority is frowned upon and fulfilling our own dream is all that matters and anything that gets in the way of my dream is pushed aside; and as Christians we can be so saturated in this way of thinking that when we join the Church it becomes difficult to fit in because when asked to forgo our way to fit in with the team way we think people are against us, they are trying to stop us fulfilling our dream and doing what we think is right hence we leave and go to another Church or until we can find somewhere they will let us do our own thing.
God’s way is the opposite. Scripture teaches that if we will lay aside our dream in order to serve the team, over time God will manoeuvre us into the place He wants us to be and provide a platform for the fulfilling of our dream. Joseph served the team of Potiphar, the jail keeper and Pharaoh hence when the time was right God promoted Joseph to the position that suited his gifts and abilities and Joseph affected the whole world.
Will you lay aside your pride and humble yourself before God that He may use you in His way. Today God is looking for people to reach the nations with the Gospel of the Kingdom, people who are teachable, willing to learn His ways, open to the new thing He is doing. YOU CAN DO IT!!!
Meditation Point: God’s way is always character first gifts second. Character harnesses gifts. Character is the doorway into the gifts.
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