"You can't win a game by yourself. Soccer is a team
sport."
Once I had a player who was very much a me player. She
felt she had to do everything herself. She would dribble up the field instead
of passing to the open player. She would shoot from strange angles. And, if she
did pass to her teammates, she would yell at them if they messed up. It just
wasn't the greatest situation for her or the other girls on the team.
I thought about what I could do to help her understand
that soccer is a team sport. I enjoy doing what I call experiments at
practices. If my team is having a problem I do an object lesson to help them
learn a lesson. This time I asked for 4 volunteers. I set up goals on a small
field. Then I had one player against the other 3 players. That doesn't seem
fair does it? Well, it wasn't but I was making a point. The girl by herself
lost. The 3 girls won. The 3 girls won because they worked together to score.
They played as a team. The girl by herself had to play every position.
It is the same way in life. If humans were meant to be
alone God wouldn't have created Eve. We are relational beings. We don't all
have the same abilities either. Romans 12:4-5 says: "For as in one body we
have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we,
though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of
another." Just like in soccer there are many positions, there are many
positions in society. Every position is important. If we didn't have sanitation
workers everything would be dirty. If we didn't have builders we wouldn't have
buildings to work in. If we didn't have assistants we wouldn't be able to focus
on big projects.
It's the same way in the body of Christ. Everyone in the
body of Christ has different gifts. If we didn't have someone in the body then
the body wouldn't be the same. We all work together to reach the lost for them
to join the body of Christ. It is a team effort. One person can't reach all the
lost. It is a team effort. I pray that we support one another as we do our work
for Christ.
So, are you trying to be a lone ranger and reach others
on your own? What can you do to reach the lost today?
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