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Advice from a man called Hillary
'We ... are ... one body, and each member belongs to all the others.' Romans 12:5
So what do your youth worker, pastor, PE teacher, Bible and even the Word 4 u 2day all have in common? Answer: they all stress and stress the importance of teamwork. A great lesson in this was learned by the first ever team to climb Mount Everest. Listen to what they found out: 'For each level we reached, a higher degree of teamwork was required. One group would exhaust themselves just getting the equipment up the mountain for the next group. Two-man teams would work finding a path, cutting steps, securing ropes, spending themselves to make the next leg of the climb possible for others.
You don't climb a mountain like Everest by trying to race ahead on your own or by competing with your comrades. No, you do it slowly and carefully, by unselfish teamwork. Certainly I wanted to reach the top myself; it was the thing I'd dreamed of all my life. But if the lot fell to someone else I would take it like a man, not a crybaby.
Where would Hillary and I have been without the others? Without the climbers who made the route? The sherpas who carried the loads? Those who cleared the path ahead? It was only through the work and sacrifice of them all that we had our chance at the top.
' The Bible teaches, 'We... are... one body, and each member belongs to all the others.' Come on, let's climb together.
written by Bob Gass
'We ... are ... one body, and each member belongs to all the others.' Romans 12:5
So what do your youth worker, pastor, PE teacher, Bible and even the Word 4 u 2day all have in common? Answer: they all stress and stress the importance of teamwork. A great lesson in this was learned by the first ever team to climb Mount Everest. Listen to what they found out: 'For each level we reached, a higher degree of teamwork was required. One group would exhaust themselves just getting the equipment up the mountain for the next group. Two-man teams would work finding a path, cutting steps, securing ropes, spending themselves to make the next leg of the climb possible for others.
You don't climb a mountain like Everest by trying to race ahead on your own or by competing with your comrades. No, you do it slowly and carefully, by unselfish teamwork. Certainly I wanted to reach the top myself; it was the thing I'd dreamed of all my life. But if the lot fell to someone else I would take it like a man, not a crybaby.
Where would Hillary and I have been without the others? Without the climbers who made the route? The sherpas who carried the loads? Those who cleared the path ahead? It was only through the work and sacrifice of them all that we had our chance at the top.
' The Bible teaches, 'We... are... one body, and each member belongs to all the others.' Come on, let's climb together.
written by Bob Gass
