Pastor Bell's Words To Live By

Team work is crucial to success

When soldiers come into the training camp, they enter as individuals and quickly become members of a unit. Being a member of a team means that you are responsible for and to all the other members and your actions impact on your colleagues.

One soldier crossing a bridge has little or no impact on it however, if one hundred soldiers march together in unity across the bridge they can cause it to vibrate, oscillate and eventually collapse. There are key words that every soldier needs to hear repeatedly. They are: Unity, Commitment, Endurance, Vision and Submission.

It was these traits that allowed the 33 miners trapped over 2300 feet (700 metres) underground to survive for seventy days before being rescued. They were ordinary men who developed a routine and incorporated the Lord into their routine. 

There is no ‘I’ in team, so the individualism generated by capitalism and portrayed by Christendom needs to be revised. We need to work together and for each other. 

Each person working as part of a team has a role to play and every role is important (1Cor 12:20). As part of the body of Christ each member has a role to play. Like the soldiers as Gilgal let us renew our commitment to God and to each member of our fellowship.

Let us live as examples so that people can follow us as we follow Christ. As we work together each of us can achieve more.

Read 1 Corinthians 12