Running as a Team

Follow Along with the Message

Teams are powerful examples of a community. Teams show the impact that can be achieved when people come together. 

1. Teamwork is    .

Acts 2:42-47 says, “And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. And awe came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were being done through the apostles. And all who believed were together and had all things in common. And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need.”

Luke 10:1 says, “After this the Lord appointed seventy-two and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to go.”

1. Teamwork is our  .

“And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near” (Hebrews 10:24–25).

The NIV Commentary states, “The solitary traveler may get to the end of the journey faster, and indeed he may gain riches along the way as he leaves the weak and the slow behind him. However, he will also find pits out of which he must dig himself out of, unrelentingly cold nights, and lonely battles.”

Dane Davis wrote a book called, I am a Christian but do I have to go to church, in which he said, “You need the church community every bit as much as it needs you. Sure, other Christians in the church need your love, encouragement, service, teaching, kindness and compassion. But to be a healthy, growing Christian, you need every one of those things from the church as well.