Theme: Who’s on your Dream Team?

Verse: Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing. (1 Thessalonians 5:11)

When Coach Herb Brooks, 1980 Olympics U.S. Men’s hockey coach, presented his proposed team to his staff he got a little surprised reaction. His assistant remarked that Coach Brooks had left some of the best players in the country off of the team. Coach Brooks response was, “I’m not looking for the BEST players, I’m looking for the RIGHT ones.” Those players may not have been the best individual players, but as a group, they were the best for the assignment at hand.

Jesus created His team of 12 disciples in a similar fashion. The 12 were not the great religious scholars of the day or those who might otherwise be regarded as “the best players of the day”. No, these were men who worked “regular” jobs; fishermen, a tax collector, and even political activist and certainly not widely regarded as a set of perfect people. But this group of regular Joes, Jesus’s Dream Team if you will, embarked on a journey that would change the world.

If Jesus needed a Dream Team around him, who are we to think we can navigate this world without similar support? We all need our own Dream Team around us. A small, inner circle that can support us in areas where we are lacking, or to be there to pick us up when we fall. We need them at our jobs, in our workout groups, and certainly in our spiritual lives.

It’s probably worth looking around your life and examining what our inner circle looks like. Is it a Dream Team? If not, what changes do you need to get not the BEST people, but the RIGHT people on-board.

Have a GREAT week!

Adapted from True Competitor by Dan Britton and Jimmy Page