We Win As a Team

I am a big fan of college football and will soon really enjoy college basketball, but one season at a time. I like Gameday on ESPN. I like the game within the game. I like rivalry week and bedlam is just around the corner. While the media may hype one player or two, it takes the whole team to accomplish a victory. Every year the team establishes the purpose, goal, and vision for the year. Every week the team is reminded of their goal which is to win this game, the conference, and a bowl game. The team has the goal because they will win as team and lose as a team. As one person stated, there is no “I” in team.

God has a plan for Perry. He has a vision and goals. He wants to see the lost found. He wants to move people from darkness to light. He wants to take people from slavery to freedom. He wants to take people from death to life. Amazing at that may be, He wants to do it through the people of God and the local churches. You can find Jesus’ final statements in Matthew 28 and Acts 1. Merging these together we see that God’s vision is that all people be transformed by the power of the Gospel. His goal is that we make disciples by and through the power of the Holy Spirit and our witness. We must take the power of God to the people of Perry.

Every Bible-believing church has the same words of Jesus giving us the same mandate. We must make disciples. We aren’t making Baptists, Methodists, Assembly of Gods, or Nazarenes. We are to help people choose Jesus, follow Jesus, and lead others to Jesus. This is every church’s, every person’s responsibility. May we in the days ahead agree and unify together for the cause and kingdom of Christ. He gave us these words before He left. May we obey them until He returns.