Your work is not just about you. Very few people work in complete isolation. We have to learn to work together with others. Success at work comes from a team attitude, which requires humility.
1 Corinthians 3:5-8 After all, who is Apollos? Who is Paul? We are only God’s servants through whom you believed the Good News. Each of us did the work the Lord gave us. I planted the seed in your hearts, and Apollos watered it, but it was God who made it grow. It’s not important who does the planting, or who does the watering. What’s important is that God makes the seed grow. The one who plants and the one who waters work together with the same purpose. And both will be rewarded for their own hard work.
Paul was well known. But he realized he couldn’t do it alone. Apollos was more obscure, but he was just as important and necessary to God’s work. Both worked together toward the same purpose.
Learning to win at work will help you to win at life. God built work into the fabric of the created world. It doesn’t always happen perfectly because of the effects of sin. But generally work has beneficial results in life.
Proverbs 28:19 A hard worker has plenty of food, but a person who chases fantasies ends up in poverty.
But work is meaningful even if you don’t ever get rich or famous, because you are fulfilling your created design. You are drawing forth the potential of God’s good creation.
Discussion Questions:
- Watch the video together or invite someone to summarize the topic.
- What is your initial reaction to this video? Do you disagree with any of it? What jumped out at you?
- Describe a time when cooperation with others at work led to a good result. What happened?
- What factors make cooperation at work challenging?
- Why is humility necessary to experience great cooperation at work?
- As you seek to honor God with your work, what are some ways your life might be better as a result?
- Write a personal action step based on this conversation.
