Welcome to Tim Minut Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Keith Simon.

And I'm Patrick Miller.

Patrick one of the things I think churches get criticized for and I think it's even a fair criticism is that we often talk a lot about people's spiritual lives, but it seems to be

divested or irrelevant to what they think of as real life. So we talk about how to read your Bible or we encourage people to come to

worship services and there's this idea that be a nice person but what does the Bible

have to say about the rest of life in other words most of life the vast

majority of my life isn't found in attending a worship service or reading my Bible or

just being nice so does the Bible have any practical biblical wisdom that

affects just ordinary relationships that speaks into my job that gets

outside of what you might think of as my leisure time.

And what we're going to wrestle with today is how to apply some biblical wisdom into an area of our life that perhaps you haven't thought about much

and that is just being a team player. It could be a team player in a family or on a

sports team or in a work environment but what does it look like to be a

Christian and be involved with a team? How do you work well with one another? What kind of

teammates do you want to find and what kind of teammate do you want to be?

And this has a lot to say to Patrick and I because not that long ago we had to start sharing

an office.

And so there caused us to have... Actually technically you had to start sharing an office. I was already sharing an office with someone else.

Okay true. I had my own office and I was kind of used to it but a variety of circumstances led me to say to Patrick, hey, you

want to come in and start sharing this office together, and so it's made us be a

team player. You like being a team player, Patrick? Well from being honest sometimes yes sometimes no back in

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