We would do well to learn from the 1980 United States Hockey team.  Pulling off the unthinkable, they defeated a Soviet team that was virtually unbeatable.  And they did it because they followed a Biblical model.

​1 Corinthians 12 12​ The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body. So it is with Christ.  13 For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body–whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free–and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.  14 Now the body is not made up of one part but of many.  15 If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body.  16 And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body.  17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be?  18 But in fact God has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be.  19 If they were all one part, where would the body be?  20 As it is, there are many parts, but one body.  21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!” 22 On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,  23 and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty,  24 while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has combined the members of the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it,  25 so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other.  26 If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.  27 Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it. 

In 2025, we are all the wiser for many things.  But we would do well to never forget what truly makes up a team.  And that is, simply put, described in 1 Corinthians 12.  It is a simple formula:  Realize that without all of your body parts, you are a sitting duck.

For all the stars and individual accolades that we can give, I can give you 10 counterexamples of how that individual star would not even be recognized today without his supporting cast.

As a coach, I have always hated the end of season awards.  We celebrate the one and forget that the other 32 are the ones that put us there … or didn’t.

And, just like God says, it relates to a 1 Corinthians 12 mindset.

As we walk through our day and operate in our various “teams” that we get to work with, let us never forget the importance of what the world would call the little guy.

Because the little guy … is exactly what Jesus became to save our sorry souls from the pits of Hell.

In The Name of the Father and the 

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

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Coach J