A Team!

A good team is hard to beat! Whether a ministry team, executive team, a sports team, a labor team, a medical team, or a husband and wife team.

However, a team is only a pretense and cannot function successfully when it lacks oneness of heart and spirit, of vision and direction. This “one-mindedness” is the critical thread in the DNA of a genuine team.

Concerning those who worked with him, the Apostle Paul wrote these words, “Did we not walk in the same spirit? Did we not walk in the same steps?” (2 Cor. 12:18) Paul was absolutely confident that any member of his ministry team would represent all of the other members both in spirit and in action. His team was no mere mirage of the real thing but a powerful world-changing force.

Dressing a group of individuals in a uniform does not make them a team. Where individual team members maintain a separate agenda and mindset the vision looses focus and becomes blurred. The goal looses its definition and becomes elusive. The similarities of the members of a true team are likeness of motivation and response, of understanding and direction, of message and discernment.

Individuals united by one dream, one goal, one purpose, one vision, one heart and one spirit; who are of one Faith, baptized into one Spirit, serving one Lord; are a Team that can attain unreachable heights, overcome insurmountable odds, conquer unbeatable foes, and secure incalculable treasures!