Serving Together- Honoring Each Other
This past week, we introduced our Going Orange (Volunteer Core Values).
Here they are: Serve Jesus, Honor each other, Own it, Love the Church!
Mature people are true team players. Just because you are on a team doesn’t make you a team player. Mature players are the ones who put it all out there for the team. They are the ones who sacrifice for the others. They can do it without needing the most validation and attention. They are the ones who can do what they do in public and in private. And they refuse to feed the affirmation beast within- they do not share “look what I’ve done” from the mountaintops. They do what they do before the audience of one- Jesus!
“It doesn’t take maturity to be ON a team, but maturity is required to be a true team player.”
Whether in sports, work, life, family, or church:
Questions for you to answer-
- Settle In- Are you content to do what Jesus has asked you to do? Phil 4:11-12
- Keep Growing!- Are you giving your all for the call or are you just giving half effort because you are skilled and good at what you do?
- Don’t force it- Does your need to be noticed push you to overstep people or get out ahead of God? 1 Peter 5:6
- Humble yourself- Can you truly celebrate the victory of others and celebrate the promotions of others? Phil 2:3-5
- Toughen up- Do you quickly get offended and threaten to quick because you were challenged by another teammate?
- Think long term- Can you serve long term or are you continually looking or the next best thing?
- Refocus- Do you use words like I, My and Me, them, they more than Us, We, together?
Don’t forget what an honor it is to serve Jesus serving his church (the bride)!
