Saluki downTime September 25, 2023

Saluki downTime September 25, 2023

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Cooperation

Define Cooperation - 

The meaning of COOPERATION is the actions of someone who is being helpful by doing what is wanted or asked for : common effort.

Listen if you want to be heard is also cooperation. 

What is your style of Cooperation? 

You want to be the Boss or you are a follower? Leader or doer? 

Gentleness is a better method of getting cooperation than harshness

John Wooden Teams was once described as: 

UCLA was a fine little team. But Duke was a fine big team. But a European coach observed that UCLA will win because they are a team. That was true and they did win.

You need people in your life.

The abilities of the players served the team, as opposed to the players being used to serve an individual. That's cooperation.

Ecclesiastes 4:9

Two people can accomplish more than twice as much as one. they get a better return for their labor. 

How much can 1 ox carry? - 2 oxen?

•A yoke is a wooden frame by which two animals, such as oxen, are coupled at the neck for the purpose of pulling a heavy load.

•Two animals work side by side in order to carry a load that one can’t do alone. If the load is not heavy, a yoke is not needed.

•A yoke makes independence impossible. You can’t go your own way.

•Typically a young, untrained ox is yoked with an older, trained ox. The younger learns from the older.

•If a trained ox can pull 5,000 pounds and an untrained ox can pull 2,000 pounds, together they can pull 10,000 pounds—much more than the sum of the two.

•Over time, the untrained ox becomes trained and the two begin to walk in-step with each other. Then they can pull 15,000 pounds.

How many of you wish you had another ability? Or were better than you are at something?

Any examples?

Romans 12:4-5

Just as our bodies have many parts and each part has a special function, so it is with Christ's body. We are all parts of his one body, and each of us has different work to do. And since we are all one body in Christ, we belong to each other, and each of us needs all the others.

There is a reason you have what you have. YOU need to use it. No one else. Then partner with people who have what you don't have.

Think about building a house. 

What are all the parts we need for a house? Specialities.

Do Your Job. The job that God has called you to do. He has equipped you. 

Where are you working alone but could benefit from working with someone else?

Where do you need help in your life? 

How can you help someone in your life? 

Let's cooperate as we use our spiritual gifts.