Day 71: All For One And One For All
Read: 1 Corinthians 12: 1 - 11
Well, it will soon be College Bowl season and if you are any kind of
football fan then you know there have been plenty of games to watch to
keep you busy. In fact, there will be (if I have counted right) 35
spread out all over the country. There are indeed going to be plenty of
college football fanatics trying to figure out how they will be able to keep up with them all during this holiday season. Friends will be invited over to the party in some 'man cave' somewhere where the whooping and hollering will begin in earnest. All of you know who I am talking about when I say there will be collections of friends wearing all kinds of team specific clothing and make up. All Rivalries Arise!
Michigan versus Ohio State, Harvard versus Yale, Army versus Navy,
Boston College versus Notre Dame, Florida versus Florida State, Alabama
versus Auburn and a host more. One friend goes to one college the other
friend to the rival college and all of a sudden during bowl season
friendship is briefly set aside and it becomes a free for all in
living rooms everywhere: "All For One And One For All"; "Up with this
team and down with that one." Let's face it, there is an incredible
amount of team fervor and zeal that ends up being put on display. Team
rivalries are taken very seriously. There is great honor and pride at stake; bragging rights and many trophy cases to be filled.
No doubt, one of the greatest college football coaches in history was
Bear Bryant at University of Alabama. When asked how he won so many
games through the years he said, “well I’m just an old plow hand from
Arkansas, but I have learned how to hold a team together. How to lift
some men up, how to calm down some others, until finally they’ve got one
heartbeat together, a team. There’s just three things I’d ever say: if
anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi good, then we did it.
If anything goes real good, then you did it. That’s all it takes to get
people to win football games for you. A team; All for one and one for
all. Many heartbeats learning to beat as one.
A team is exactly
what the apostle Paul is describing in our text today. Webster gives us
a couple of definitions of teamwork: 2 or more people working together;
a single unit composed of individual components for the purpose of
accomplishing a common goal. This is how Paul describes the church or
any community of faith in verses 4-7. Paul says we are many, yet at the
same time we are one. We are a team and our team is defined by our
relationship to Christ. Team work involves many people who are often
very different. Teams work for the good of everybody. We all benefit. We
will accomplish much more together than we will apart. All for one and
All for Christ!
Let Us Pray: O Sovereign and Almighty Lord,
bless all your people, and all your flock. Give your peace, your help,
your love to us your servants, the sheep of your fold, that as your
team, as God's team, as the Body of Christ we may all be united in the
bonds of peace; of faith; of hope and above all else love, All for one,
one for all, one body and one spirit, in one hope of our sure calling,
within your divine and boundless love.
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Read: 1 Corinthians 12: 1 - 11
Well, it will soon be College Bowl season and if you are any kind of football fan then you know there have been plenty of games to watch to keep you busy. In fact, there will be (if I have counted right) 35 spread out all over the country. There are indeed going to be plenty of college football fanatics trying to figure out how they will be able to keep up with them all during this holiday season. Friends will be invited over to the party in some 'man cave' somewhere where the whooping and hollering will begin in earnest. All of you know who I am talking about when I say there will be collections of friends wearing all kinds of team specific clothing and make up. All Rivalries Arise!
Michigan versus Ohio State, Harvard versus Yale, Army versus Navy, Boston College versus Notre Dame, Florida versus Florida State, Alabama versus Auburn and a host more. One friend goes to one college the other friend to the rival college and all of a sudden during bowl season friendship is briefly set aside and it becomes a free for all in living rooms everywhere: "All For One And One For All"; "Up with this team and down with that one." Let's face it, there is an incredible amount of team fervor and zeal that ends up being put on display. Team rivalries are taken very seriously. There is great honor and pride at stake; bragging rights and many trophy cases to be filled.
No doubt, one of the greatest college football coaches in history was Bear Bryant at University of Alabama. When asked how he won so many games through the years he said, “well I’m just an old plow hand from Arkansas, but I have learned how to hold a team together. How to lift some men up, how to calm down some others, until finally they’ve got one heartbeat together, a team. There’s just three things I’d ever say: if anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi good, then we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That’s all it takes to get people to win football games for you. A team; All for one and one for all. Many heartbeats learning to beat as one.
A team is exactly what the apostle Paul is describing in our text today. Webster gives us a couple of definitions of teamwork: 2 or more people working together; a single unit composed of individual components for the purpose of accomplishing a common goal. This is how Paul describes the church or any community of faith in verses 4-7. Paul says we are many, yet at the same time we are one. We are a team and our team is defined by our relationship to Christ. Team work involves many people who are often very different. Teams work for the good of everybody. We all benefit. We will accomplish much more together than we will apart. All for one and All for Christ!
Let Us Pray: O Sovereign and Almighty Lord, bless all your people, and all your flock. Give your peace, your help, your love to us your servants, the sheep of your fold, that as your team, as God's team, as the Body of Christ we may all be united in the bonds of peace; of faith; of hope and above all else love, All for one, one for all, one body and one spirit, in one hope of our sure calling, within your divine and boundless love.
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