no i in team

i was just reading this article on soccernet about how arsenal just cannot keep their players year after year and how they dealt with it after each departure. there's this sentence that caught my eye, and reminded me so much of church:

"if a player is not going to commit to the club, you have to just move on without him. Sometimes a disappointing departure prompts other people step up to the plate and they share out the responsibility more among the team."

replacing "player" with "member" and "club" with "chuch", it totally makes sense. a lot of my ex-church mates have left the church, a lot of them very talented people with different gifts. of course I do not at any point think that they aren't team players, but this is more about other people stepping up.

using the music ministry as an example, the typical team of today is totally different from the team 2 years ago. they may not be as musically inclined as some people in the past, but they love God enough to put in the effort and to ignore how people may view their mistakes negatively. zheng long and crystal co-worship leaders, uncle see jwee and auntie siew lan playing the guitar and synthie respectively, they are but few examples out of the many that stepped up.

though it is always saddening for people to leave, the silver lining is that no one is indispensable, God always provides.

"Lukas Podolski isn't as good as Van Persie but he works hard and he's got different qualities; he's scoring goals at the moment and he's working his socks off for the team."