Who Is Your Number One Team?

When push comes to shove who is your number one team, who do you stand by, who do you defend? Who are you willing to talk about, who are you willing to downplay in front of others? Who are you willing to spend time with and who will you not cancel plans with? There are so many opportunities, activities, and relationships in our lives that many times I believe we straddle this fence of life where we struggle to define who is really our number one team in life. Work is important. We need to value our families. Friends are the people we count on to share life with. Within those groups, there are subgroups, how many of us have talked critically about someone in our family to another family member – like a parents, brother, sister, spouse? How about at work, do we defend our team that we are responsible for even when it involves being critical of the overall leadership? How about our friends – who is the one person you would not be critical of? Who are the people you would talk about behind their backs if it meant fitting in?

I read the book “The Five Dysfunctions of Team” yesterday and one of the points they made was – who is your number one team – in a business sense is it the senior management level that you are a part of or is it the area that you directly lead? Is it ok to talk about the people above you to the team you lead?

In a real life, spiritual sense how many of us have difficulty standing up for the number one team in our lives? How many of us will downplay our faith, or mumble about oh it is just something we do on Sunday, or say, yea it’s not for everyone, or I go because I have to? How many of us are willing to be critical of Jesus, of followers of Him, just so that we can fit in?

As we live our lives we have to keep reminding ourselves what is our number one team? What group of people are the most important in our lives? Which group of people are willing to fight for, defend, which ones have we messed up by being critical of them to people we have no business doing so. How many relationships have we burned by not living for our number one team? I am still wrestling through what this means for me, but I have failed at times in the past and I want to make sure that my future involves living for the number one team at my job, in my family, with my friends, and most importantly with my relationship with God.