When I was young I played the great sport of hockey. Through that experience I quickly found out that the only way to be a winner is to play a great team. We played against a team called Little Canada all the time. We never lost to them. They had a great player, number 5 (at least in the eyes of a fourth grader), but the rest of the team wasn’t very good. We always won because we had several people that may not have been great, but good, and yet, when you put all of us together we were always better than the other team.
Teamwork is essential in business and industry. To underscore this point, Co-op Magazine included this item: "You've heard of the corny Tate family. They pervade every organization. There is Dick Tate, who wants to run everything. Ro Tate tries to change everything. Agi Tate stirs up trouble whenever possible, and Irri Tate always lends him a hand. "Whenever new ideas are suggested, Hesi Tate and Vegi Tate pour cold water on them. Imi Tate tries to mimic everyone, Devas Tate loves to be disruptive, and Poten Tate wants to be a big shot. But its Facili Tate, Cogi Tate, and Medi Tate who always save the day and gets everyone pulling together."Unless you are Jesus Christ, a one-man show doesn't get very far. He could obviously do anything on His own and be better than anyone else, but He wanted people around Him working with Him. It is why we were created. God wasn’t satisfied with doing everything on His own so He created us to share with Him in all things, including His image. That is why there is nowhere else that the truth of teamwork is brought to a higher and more powerful fulfillment than in the body of Christ. The Scriptures teach that by God's design all that is in Christ have been made dependent on one another. We may think we can go it on our own, but we can't. We can't fulfill our high calling as members of the body of Christ until we begin to realize that we all have a vital part to play. We are family. We need one another. The song that I love to hear when talking about others in the body of Christ is, “I need you, you need me, we’re all a part of the body.” Just imagine how different and empty our lives would be if we didn’t have one another with which to share this life.
“The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.”
-James Cash Penney
