IT TAKES TEAM WORK
1 Corinthians 12:12-13
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves[a] or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
I was only about 12 years old and it was the first time "the guys" let me walk during a small drive. It wasn't a long walk, maybe a ½ mile but somehow I got turned around and I came out in the wrong place. I had messed up the drive. 15 years later I ran into an older gentleman in the same area and he told me that he had run into my dad that day, 15 years earlier, and the guys were looking for me. He told me that on that evening he killed the biggest buck of his life... where I was supposed to walk... but missed.
The art of hunting deer with slow quiet "drives" is about lost. There might be no better method of harvesting deer than a slow methodical push by people that know the land and know how to hunt together. I grew up hunting this way and actually took my first buck, a nice 7 point, with family hunting like this. I miss the planning and execution of this type of hunting. Each person played a part and when everyone did their job it was very successful. When just one person stepped out of the plan everything went bad and the chance of success was lowered drastically.
My dad loved to hunt this way as well. The last few years we hunted this way he was usually a "stander" on the pushes. As a driver, if you heard his gun go off, you knew there would be a deer on the other end of the drive. It's been quite a few years now and I miss the team work and camaraderie that this type of hunting required.
Years ago, one morning in church, someone said of the lady playing the piano, "I'm amazed at how your fingers work together to play that piano". It was true the special number she played was beautiful and seemingly flawless.
This same thing is true of God's family as well. When each of us plays our part, within the family, it will be a beautiful thing. If we each play the part that God has given us to play there is no better team. Not only will it be beautiful, it will be like a well executed deer drive, it will be productive.
Ephesians 4:11 tells us about some of the fingers that help make beautiful music together.
"So Christ himself gave some to be apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers," (Ephesians 4:11)
When the entire family comes together and does the job that they were created for, there is nothing we can't accomplish. When just one part of the team doesn't do their job the entire team is affecte
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