There Ain't No "u" In Team

Things only poor controlling leaders say.

The guys complained to Shaq, 

"Kobe ain't passing the ball."

So Shaq said he'd talk to him.

Shaq "There is no 'i' in team Kobe"

Kobe "I know but there is a 'm' , 'e' in that mother f@@er..."

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To quote a cartoon..... 

"There is no "i" in team!

There is no "u" in team either!

So if "i" ain't in the team and "u" ain't in the team, there is no Mother F-ing team."

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Do what you know is right to do, or has integrity. 

You don't have to agree to mediocrity, nor serve mediocrity to be a team player. 

There are many terrible teams. Teams that will have you wasting your life in tasks that are fruitless, or even worse, a concession to something you shouldn't conceed to. 

Bluntly, I've fround the leaders who would use this phrase (no i in team) are the least likely to be the ones I want to emulate or follow.

If being on a team requires that one must agree to time wasting fruitless activity that bothers your conscience, or unbiblical values, teaching, or questionable methods, then that team demands too much. 

Don't agree to mediocrity, don't agree to violate your conscience, nor scripture. 

Shaq video

They Cannot See The Bird

But beware: No one is stranger than a person who “sees” in a community that is “blind.”

- Leonard Sweet. 

"....Bob Olmstead....one busy afternoon driving on a Reno, Nevada, city street when a small, wounded bird wandered out into the highway. It huddled on the pavement as the cars whizzed past it and over it, tires somehow missing it. I glimpsed the bird just as the tires of my car straddled it. At that moment I made a rash decision. I decided to rescue the bird. I stopped the car, jumped out, and held up my hands to stop traffic. If I could “shoo” the bird over the curb and into the hedge of bushes, it would be safe, at least from traffic. When I approached the bird it scooted away, but it didn’t scoot in a straight line. Whether it was too young to fly, whether its wing was injured, I do not know. But every time I bent down and waved my arms the bird would half hop, half fly in a crazy circle and end up back in the middle of the road. I could not catch it and I could not get it to run into the bushes. By this time I had a considerable amount of traffic backed up. The close drivers were watching me with quizzical or suspicious expressions. Farther back, horns were honking. I kept thinking, “Just another minute and I’ll catch the little bird or it will run off into the bushes.” So I continued running around in the street, stooped over, flapping my arms, chasing that little feathered thing. It was only then that I realized the other drivers could not see the bird!

 Visionaries are like that. Others cannot see what they see."

We "Hear" A Vision Beore We "See" It?

"For leaders, it is never too often to be reminded of this verse—or to remind others of it: “Faith comes from hearing” (Rom. 10:17). When Jesus said in Matthew 6:22 “If your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light,” I like to think that the “sound eye” is more than just my play on words. Followers of Jesus have vision that is voice-activated. They hear a vision before they see a vision."

- Leonard Sweet. AquaChurch 2.0

Best Definition of Leadership

"A leader reminds people of their first love. A leader helps people remember the first time they heard the music."

- Leonard Sweet. AquaChurch 2.0

Rules Were Invented by Elders so They Could Get to Bed Early!

That last line was interesting....

"He taught me not the quick cure of rules and laws, but the art of patience. That is what changed my life. Legalism is nothing but a Leader's way of avoiding suffering. 
Rules were invented by Elders so they could get to bed early!"
-Gene Edwards. A Tale Of Three Kings

A Church Without Control

"As we come to see his church as a reality outside of human control, then you can embrace her reality however she takes shape in the relationships and connections around you."

- Wayne Jacobsen. Beyond Sundays 

What Elders Really Are About

"There are elders, teachers, prophets, and apostles who are gifts to help us know God better and learn his ways. Just know that the real ones don’t carry the title on their business cards and are not building an institution in their name. At almost every stage where God has shifted my thinking, he put me alongside some older men and women who could encourage his work in me and provide warnings when I was being sidetracked. Those who are wise, gently honest, and without the need to control your response are great gifts. We need more of these genuine elders scattered in the body of Christ who are courageous enough to walk alongside others and encourage their growth without controlling them."

- Wayne Jacobsen. Beyond Sundays. 

"We don't judge the quality of the game by the half time chat in the locker room. The coach said this, the music was like that. No we judge it by the game being played out on the field."

- Reggie McNeal

Avoid Church Strategy

"We think God's will is a strategy he wants to give us so that we can follow it. I think it is a will that unfolds." 

- Wayne Jacobsen

Teamwork As Stupidity

"One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork."

-Edward Abbey