Who's on Your Team?

Last night I watched my Dallas Mavericks wrap up their first NBA Championship. I say "championship" with certainty and "first" with hope. Much of the local sports talk has been that it was a victory of a TEAM that played together, depended on each other, had one another's backs, didn't care who had the ball at crunch time ... and, other than Dirk Nowitzki, had no superstars. The other team seemed to be a collection of superstars that couldn't figure out how the pieces fit together. They couldn't decide which one of them should be the "go-to" guy and take the game over, imposing his will to win on his teammates and his opponents alike. I am not jumping on the "evil Miami Heat" bandwagon. I am just intrigued by what it meant for the Mavs' MVP to have a TEAM. Dirk had arguably his worst game of the entire playoffs. At the end of the first half, he had 3 points and had missed 11 of 12 shots. Yet, amazingly, his TEAM held the lead. They scored when they needed to, they played monster defense, and they never lost trust in him when he was missing all those shots. When he found his shot in the second half and scored 18 points, his TEAM kept doing what they had done before and scored 34. If you are a leader in your church, ministry, or organization--especially if you are the senior leader--I have some crucial questions for you:

Who's on your TEAM? Who has your back? Who can you count on to step up when you are not at peak performance? Who trusts you enough to keep passing you the ball until you find your shot?

If you can come up with a few names in answer to those questions, good for you! So, how are you using your TEAM to increase the effectiveness of your church or organization? What help to you need to develop that kind of TEAM? With an Eye on the Harvest, Gerry