"I am a member of a team"

"I am a member of a team", and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion."
For those of us that have had the opportunity to be on some kind of team, we know that this is true. It doesn’t matter if it is a sports team, school debate team, work force team, or even a ministry team like 2=1.
It’s not about the individual any more, and that is something we have been seeing in the ministry world. It seems to us that, God has sovereignly moved us as a body of believers, from it being about a person that leads, to a team concept.
The last of the Mohicans if you will, and we say this with great respect, is Billy Graham, who really has been one of the humblest leaders in the body of Christ, his entire ministry. We know there are others, but not many these days.
It seems like many of the others have gone down in flames, or died and gone on to be with the Lord, and then some, have left a legacy that is spoiled at best.
We sense that the Lord is doing a new thing, and that is why we as a board at 2=1, have moved in this direction. (TEAM) We are sensing that God is saying, what I want to accomplish here on earth, I want to do through relationships. We think that has always been the case, but now has a different ring to it, if you will.
Another word we keep hearing is community. (Another idea of team) We’ve asked the Lord in prayer to; please show us what you’re doing. Here is what we are sensing.
Now we ask here, that you eat the meat and spit out the bones.
In Gods kingdom there are no boundaries or borders, (for where He wants us to minister to marriages) and we also see that with time zones and oceans, there not limiting us any longer.
Something else we’ve seen is, some churches are hindering the advance of what God is calling us to do; and that is to build His Church. Please understand this, we are not into empire building, we’re a kingdom building ministry. Don’t get us wrong, there have been many churches that have helped us to accomplish what God has called us to do…but we’d submit to you many more have not and because of that, have seen many gifted leadership couples not join the team, who wanted to go on with us but their pastor said no.
We have been trying for years to team up with congregations, around the world, and in some places it has worked magnificently, most as we have stated seem to be threatened by us. We’ve heard things like; you’re stealing our people. (If God has put a call on their lives to minister to marriages, and they can’t, because a pastor won’t let them, they will go wherever they have to go to answer that call, which means, they will lose them anyway.) Or here’s another we have heard; if you expect to work in my city you have to go through me. (We feel sorry for that pastor, because he is going to have to answer to God on that one.) But this is the kind of stuff we are running into.
All we want to do is come along side the church, on a parallel track, not be over them or under, but along side, working to strengthen the marriages and families of their congregation, cities, and build up Gods Church, as a team, member with them.
This is just another thought we’d like to throw in for free.
Many congregational pastors and others, call us a para-church organization. We have come to dislike that term; it’s said with disdain many times. Their idea is that we are outside the church, (congregation) and therefore not the church. Our come back to them is, that we are all the Church (notice the capital “C”), and no we are not a congregation (notice the small “c”) but we are the Church, the same as they are. So let’s work together, to heal and restore marriages, and build HIS CHURCH, and not let the enemy get in the middle of the work, which the Lord has for us both to accomplish.
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