Picking Teams

It doesn’t matter if it’s dodgeball, basketball, football, paintball or steal the bacon…

Picking teams is all about selecting the right people—for your advantage.

We choose the biggest, fastest, strongest, most recognized, talented and experienced players to be on our teams.

But…

God’s kingdom doesn’t work this way.

He’s not interested in selecting people for His advantage.

He has selected us and welcomed us to His team—and this cost Him. It really cost Him.

It’s not as if we had something to offer Him—we don’t make Him victorious or more successful.

“Take a good look, friends, at who you were when you were called into this life.

I don’t see many of the ‘brightest and the best’ among you, not many influential, not many from high-society families.

Isn’t it obvious that God deliberately chose men and women that culture overlooks and exploits and abuses…

Everything that we have—right thinking and right living, a clean slate and a fresh start—comes from God by way of Jesus Christ.” (1 Corinthians 1.26-27, 30 MSG)

The 15 Revolution isn’t about selecting people for our advantage.

It’s not about surrounding ourselves with people who will help us “win”.

The 15 Revolution is about loving, welcoming, including, serving and blessing people—even when it costs a lot.