Put Me In Coach

Write down the most important tasks you have to do tomorrow and number them in order of importance. When you arrive in the morning, begin at once on Number One and stay with it until it’s completed. Recheck your priorities; then begin with Number Two. If any task takes all day, never mind. Stick with it as long as it’s the most important one. If you don’t finish them all, you probably couldn’t do so with any other method, and without some system you’d probably not eve decide which one was most important. Make this a habit every working day. When it works for you, give it to your men. Try it as long as you like. Then send me a check for what it’s worth. Ivy Ledbetter Lee to Charles M Schwab of Bethlehem Steel.

Organization an prioritization are important concepts even in the Bible.

The Bible says Moses organized Israel under the care of leaders by the 1000, the 100, the 50, and the 10.

Saul, David, and Joab organized their armies. David also led in the organization of singers and orchestra for the Temple. And the Bible says that Jesus organizes and holds together the church like a Head does a Body.

I want to talk to you today about the “Put Me in Coach; the Power of One”

The Priority of Worship

Psalm 27:4 HCSB

I have asked one thing from the Lord; it is what I desire: to dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, gazing on the beauty of the Lord and seeking Him in His temple.

We must realize that our first priority; Our First “ONE THING” is to Worship the Lord. Jesus taught the woman at the well this when He said “The Father is seeking worshippers who will worship Him in Spirit and truth.

The Priority of Witness

John 9:25 HCSB

He answered, “Whether or not He’s a sinner, I don’t know. One thing I do know: I was blind, and now I can see!”

Here’s a man that says I don’t know all the ins and outs and technical stuff, but I can sing Amazing Grace… Tell What you do know. Jesus has changed my life. WOO

The Priority of Work.

Philippians 3:13 HCSB

Brothers, I do not consider myself to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and reaching forward to what is ahead,

This is where the thought of “Put me in coach” comes from. So often when we think of Paul in Philippians we think of him teaching about proper attitudes and wanting to be like Christ in the way we think, etc. But when you think properly and have the proper attitude of a servant the Jesus had in Phil 2, it leads to SERVICE.

Go back to what I said in the beginning. Organization and prioritization are big concepts even in the Bible.

Truth: Many of our people are trying to do too many things while too many of us are doing too little or nothing.

Fact: About half of our Sunday morning nursery workers also sing in the choir. Over half of our Children’s Church Workers sing in the choir or play in the band, and 25% of our preschool worship leaders sing in the choir.

Question: If this is the place where you plan on coming to church, bringing your kids, and utilizing the wonderful benefit of nursery care, preschool worship, or children’s church, why don’t you make Riddles Bend your church home, then sign up to serve somewhere? One Sunday a month in one place… If several of you did this, then the folks up here who help lead in worship wouldn’t be so spread out. And it would make organizing everything so much easier.

One Sunday per month. One thing to do. The same Sunday of each month. Sounds like a plan to me.