Jesus Style Leadership 4 - Sent & TeamSample

Designed for Team

Leadership Lesson

Because we are made in God’s image, we are designed for community/team.

Read Genesis 1:26-31, 2:18.

Comment

Genesis 1 and 2 provide two different pictures of creation. Genesis 1 gives the overview, and Genesis 2 expands on some parts. God did a great job with creation. After each creative flourish, the narrator emphasises that God saw that what He had done was good. This culminates in 1:31, where God comments that His creation was “very good.” But as Genesis 2 brings out, there was one aspect of creation that God said was not good. That was the creation of a lone man (2:18). It’s not that God made a mistake that had to be corrected. Genesis 1 shows that it was always God’s intention to create a community of people, because that is what God himself is like. God said, “Let us make mankind in our image” (1:26). God is Trinity. He is both one and three (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit). God has always been a community, so His intention in creating us was to create a human community like Him. A lone person could not be a community. Adam alone was not good. Right at the centre of creation were two people (Adam and Eve) who would represent God on earth. This remains God’s good intention for us. We have been designed and created to work together as a Team. This is our focus for the final devotions.

Prayer

Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, you work together in such love, unity, and interdependence. I know this is a high ideal, but I long to work together with my Christian brothers and sisters in a way that represents you well. Please keep changing me so that I will be able to contribute to a team where members not only love You, but also love each other.

Personal Reflection

Who do you work with in such a way that you think, “This is really good”? Why is that?