Who's Your Team?

In the book  "The 11 Most Indispensable Relationships You Can't Be Without" by Leonard Sweet he spends a great deal of time talking about " The real meaning of life is not a journey questions or an arrival question.  It's a relationship question.  Your journey and your destination are both important, but neither is possible without an answer to this prior question: Who do you have with you?"

¹³ Jesus went up on a mountainside and called to him those he wanted, and they came to him. ¹⁴ He appointed twelve that they might be with him.  Mark 3:13-14a

About 3 years ago I had been blessed to be able to fly out to Saddleback Church to sit amongst the movers & shakers of modern day teaching & preaching.   Enters this one guy (via video conference) Leonard Sweet who sounded like an hyper-intelligent madman, that was living in the secluded mountains talking about the importance of relationships.  After mentioning one of his personal best sellers " The Gospel According to Starbucks" he began talking about this new book " The 11......" and I was awakened.  I felt I really needed this book to help me on my own personal journey.  After picking this book up...I was not only encouraged, I was inspired to lead a group of men to read a book on the importance of "relationships" and this group of men and I lives were heavily impacted to awaken to the reality  WE NEED A TEAM to be successful.  JESUS didn't come down off the mountain from standing toe to toe with Satan and say.......I'm ready GOD, to do this alone!!!  No JESUS CHRIST, the son of GOD chose 12 to BE WITH HIM!   In every great movie....theirs a cast to help pull off the show.   In your life....you have a cast some you didn't get to select (parents, grandparents, etc) and some you do (friends, business partners, co-workers, neighbors, parishioners) but nonetheless have you discovered WHY they are in your life?   Have you really put much time in effort in discovering their giftedness, their own personal stories & appreciating EACH person GOD placed in your little world?

For the next several days, I plan to walk your through this book called The 11, because I think there's much to be said about your relationships, and God's design for you to be in community with a group of people that desire to see you, be your best you.  CHALLENGE:  Think about the people you currently have in your life.  Take some time today to pray for those closest to you, praise God specifically for each one of them.  Even the one that may have, or has already betrayed you.  LGLP