Encouraged teamwork.  Whenever you’ve got a project of any size and you need to organize it, realize that we accomplish so much more together than we do as individuals.   B.C. Forbes, the guy who founded Forbes magazine said, “You spell success, T-E-A-M-W-O-R-K.” Cooperation is a key principle that’s built into good organization.

“Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, thinking together is unity, working together is success.”  Together we can do things we can’t do as individuals.  Geese can fly 72% farther when they’re in formation than when they fly off by themselves.  Who taught them that?  God did.  When we cooperate together, when there is teamwork there is great growth.  Cooperation is a greater motivator than competition.   It lasts because you feel like you’re together on a winning team.  People influence each other.  They influence the people they’re next to for good or for bad.

The wisest man ever to live, Solomon wrote in Ecclessiastes 4:9-10, “Two can accomplish more than twice as much as one. The results can be much better.  If one falls the other pulls him up.  If a man falls when he’s alone, he’s in trouble.”  Who’s going to pull him up.  When you’re building an organization, a business, a church, a social club, a lay ministry you follow these principles:  keep it simple, work with those who want to work, make specific assignments, allow for ownership, encourage teamwork.

Leadership Law:  Good organizations provide a supportive climate of trust and teamwork.  That’s a mark of a good organization. They provide a supportive climate of trust and teamwork.  In the Bible, when referring to Christians in the church, the phrase “one another” is used 58 times.  It’s as if God’s saying, “Get the message!  Help each other!”  There is no such thing as Lone Ranger Christians.  We are together in this.  We’re a team.  There is tremendous power in cooperation.  God can overlook almost anything in a church:  poor facilities, no facilities, poor doctrine.  The one thing God will not overlook is disunity.  In the first ten chapters of the book of Acts in the New Testament, ten times it says, “they were of one accord… of one heart … unified.”  When you have unification like they did in Acts you will have the power of Acts. Thee is power in teamwork.  Working together in this atmosphere of trust and teamwork.  “Snow is a beautiful demonstration of what God can do with a bunch of flakes.”  Individually, I can’t do much and you can’t do much, snowflakes are pretty frail.  But if enough of them stick together they can stop traffic.  I can’t do much.  I can’t make an impact on this area by myself.  You can’t make an impact on this region by yourself.  But together, we’re making an impact.  That’s teamwork.