Teamwork scrapbook

Scripture

Mark 6:7–13 CSB

He summoned the Twelve and began to send them out in pairs and gave them authority over unclean spirits. He instructed them to take nothing for the road except a staff—no bread, no traveling bag, no money in their belts, but to wear sandals and not put on an extra shirt. He said to them, “Whenever you enter a house, stay there until you leave that place. If any place does not welcome you or listen to you, when you leave there, shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them.” So they went out and preached that people should repent. They drove out many demons, anointed many sick people with oil and healed them.

Introduction - The Imporance of A Team To a Leader

https://bible.org/seriespage/mark-15-team-player

https://www.gotquestions.org/Bible-teamwork.html

https://www.biblicalleadership.com/blogs/5-ways-jesus-developed-his-team/

https://www.gominno.com/blog/3-bible-stories-to-teach-your-kids-about-teamwork

https://likeateam.com/teamwork-as-the-body-of-christ/

At a Midwestern fair, many spectators gathered for an old-fashioned horse pull (an event where various weights are put on a horse-drawn sled and pulled along the ground).

The grand-champion horse pulled a sled with 4,500 pounds on it. The runner-up was close, with a 4,400-pound pull.

Some of the men wondered what the two horses could pull if hitched together. Separately they totaled nearly 9,000 pounds, but when hitched and working together as a team, they pulled over 12,000 pounds.

TEAM - TOGETHER EVERYONE ACHIEVES MORE

Jesus went about and got a team

If all Jesus had did was come, die, and rose again - It would have been useless

He needed a team to assist and also to carry on the work

He sent them out on different tasks

WE need to see ourselves as part of the team

WE cant talk about leadership without talking about Teamwork

No Leader can do everything - No matter how anointed they are - they just cannot

Sanjay was using the illusttation of Pastors doing everything in a service -

They not gifted in everything

Teamwork makes the dreamwork

Examples of Teamwork in the Bible

Scriptures on Teamwork In the Bible

Easter would not have happened without a team

The first examples of teamwork found in the Bible are in the opening chapter of Genesis. There we find the Trinity: the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, working in concert at creation (Genesis 1:1–3). Each member of the Godhead had a position to fill in the creation of the world; each One had a defined job to perform.

On the sixth day of creation, God fashioned Adam and Eve, the first human team. They were designed to complement each other and mirror the image and the community—the teamwork—of the Trinity (Genesis 1:26–27).

Ephesians 4:12 refers to the church—the community of believers—as the “body of Christ.” The church is to work as a team.

Jesus’ twelve-man team was marked by its diversity (Mark 3:13–18; Luke 6:12–16). One was a tax collector, several were fishermen, one was politically active and known as “the Zealot.”

There is no jealousy in teamwork. When the whole team is working for the glory of God, there is no internal competition: “I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow” (1 Corinthians 3:6).

In the realm of sports today and even in the corporate world, we often hear the terms, team player, team effort

No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable.

One of the problems in the church today is its failure to function as a team. Too frequently we have situations where a few people, often very gifted, are trying to do all or most of the work.

YOU NEED TO GIVE OTHERS A CHANCE TO SHINE

Pastor does it

No person is an island. A teamwork mentality is another one of the litmus test qualities of maturity.

Leaders need to have a team and depend on them as well.

One might think that Jesus, of all people, would not have enlisted the help of others to accomplish the things the Father had sent Him to do. This One who could still the storms, raise the dead, heal the sick, make the blind see and the lame walk, bind the demonic, forgive sin, and even call ten thousand angels to his aid still enlisted a team of men, a small band of disciples.

These were men from all walks of society that had lots of faults

Thus, part of the responsibility of the church through its leadership involves first the ability to appreciate the gifts and abilities of a variety of people and then the ability to help them find places of ministry in accordance with their own giftedness, personalities, and God’s specific leading. Because we too often fail to do this, we end up with the futile exercise of attempting to fit square pegs into round holes. Churches and their leaders must help the members of the body of Christ work to their strengths rather than their weaknesses.

Dont put someone to sing if they cause the rain to fall especially when we living in a place like Barrackpore

Dwight L. Moody had the right perspective. He once said that he would rather put a thousand men to work than do the work of a thousand men. As we have seen, the Lord Jesus, after a night of prayer (Luke 6:12), chose twelve disciples, poured Himself into them, and ultimately put thousands to work doing the Father’s business.

Moses Father in Law Jethro had to talk to him

You Can’t Do Everything

Ecclesiastes 4:9–12 speaks of the value of teamwork: “Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up. Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone? Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.”

It doesn’t get any better than that.

How Jesus Developed His Team

1.  Jesus delegated

However, Jesus gave His disciples exciting jobs to do too. Once, He sent 70 people on a challenging excursion to preach the gospel and heal the sick (Luke 10:1-9). They weren’t even allowed to take with them any money or supplies!

2. 3.  Jesus gave away authority

Jesus wasn’t afraid to give authority to others. In Luke 9, He gave the 12 power and authority over demons as well as to cure diseases. In Luke 10:19, He gave authority to the 70. In fact, the whole point of the tiny parable in Mark 13:34 is that He has given authority to all of His servants.

5.  Jesus gave His team a shared mission

Jesus gave His team both a shared mission and a common goal. Their shared mission was the Great Commission. Their common goal was to be witnesses empowered by the Holy Spirit as in Acts 1:8.

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