7"Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good."
Alistair Begg told a story yesterday about someone who showed a video at a conference he was attending of a hockey player who, clip after clip, was passing the puck to another player who then scored a goal. Number 19's claim to fame was not that he was a great scorer, but that he was great at assisting others in scoring goals.
I did a little research and found that number 19 for the San Jose' Sharks, the team the video clips were taken from, is Joe Thornton. Consistently over the years Joe has been a leading points getter. Players get their points based on the number of goals scored and the number of assists they have. In the 2007-2008 season, for example, Joe was the highest points getter with 96 points - 29 of which were for goals he scored and 67 were for his assists. The entire team scored 172 goals that year which means that Joe personally scored 16% of the goals and assisted in 46% of the remaining 143 goals. Alistair's point was that although number 19 did not score most of the team's goals, most of the goals that were scored involved number 19 (95 of the 172).
I want to score some goals for Jesus, my coach, and his church, my team. More than that I want to be a number 19. I want to help my teammates score goals. Joe Thornton is a good illustration that teams win on the combined efforts of everyone on the team and that assisting is more important than scoring.
Paul's Online is a team effort following the example of another great team player, the Apostle Paul. Although he personally did many great things for Jesus, he was only part of a much larger team. Just read his letters to the churches and see how he assisted them through his encouragements and teachings. Paul also often mentioned those who assisted him in his work.
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4 comments:
i wanna be a #19!! :) you should put a hyperlink to alistar begg's podcasts so people can look him up and have a listen!
Click here 4 Alistar Begg's awesome scottish accent ;) http://www.truthforlife.org/site/PageServer?pagename=lst_overview
great idea --- but I think you need to avoid the word "should" (wink, wink).
Number 19 . . .
My brother, my brother, my brohter . . . that was a HUGE score. John, when we receive our eternal rewards, I believe this is the score card Jesus will be looking at.
The collaboration factor . . . I wonder if the collaboration factor is a fruit of the Transformed life - Church . . . ?
For our Lord Jesus collaborated with Father's will that none would perish, but that all would have eternal life. Jesus simply then passes the puck to the Holy Spirit who then passes the puck to us - The Church.
For we have received power since the Holy Spirit has come upon us. Power to and for what? . . . Jesus said, "You will do greater things than I do." What did Jesus do? Not WWJD. What did He do.
Right from jump street, He declared this is the year of Jubilee. He started off with a rocket. Jubilee is saying . . . I'm taking the past injustices of land and all the stuff that went with its gathering and calling an end to the deal. Sounds something like Nehemiah said when He went to rebuild the walls.
The walls impacted all. He only addressed the people of God in how they were dealing unjustly with one another.
Once he established this issue those outside of God's people took up their attack and unbelief antics.
Keep the sword and hammer together.
This will surely allow us to assist others in scoring their victories.
So let's follow the cheese and move with a revolutionary transformation.
Focused,
Ronald
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