The Unlikely Team - Part 1

Many of us can remember the playground as a kid . . . lined up against the fence as teams are being carefully selected.  Were you ever the last kid standing at the fence?  Feeling alone, uncomfortable, realizing that nobody actually wanted you on his or her team, but inevitably you were taken as a consolation prize by the captain who lost the rock-paper-scissors battle that started this whole thing.

In case you were wondering, that is not the ideal method of building a team.  Unfortunately, many times our Worship Teams can be viewed as such.  “Oh sure, they only allow the cool kids on the stage.  Apparently once you reach a certain age you will be discarded from the cool crowd.  I sure wish I was part of the cool crowd.”

Granted, we need to get along with the people on our team, and trust is an absolute necessity.  However, working with people from different backgrounds, demographics, status, and interests has many benefits as well, each person brings with them a whole new level of influence.  I realize I cannot reach everyone in our church . . . however, the more diverse people we have on stage, the more opportunity for each person to find someone they can connect with because of their own similarities.

1 Corinthians 12:12-14 (ESV)

   ¹² For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. ¹³ For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.  ¹⁴ For the body does not consist of one member but of many.