motivation

Having grown up around sports, playing sports and loving sports it is sometimes hard for me to read a verse and not make a comparison to sports. I now am team pastor of a highschool football team and coaching a highschool girls softball team. I notice a lot of things, and leadership definitely comes from the top. But, good leaders reproduce other great leaders underneath them.
For example, a great motivating coach will have his or her team ready to play every time they step onto the field. But, that motivation only goes so far and then it has to be picked up by the players. On every team you will have atleast one or two players who are active leaders and motivators on the field. You will see young athletes who take charge when they are out on the field and whether it's picking someone up when they let the team down or shouting encouragement and motivation before every play they just motivate their teammates. A church should work the same way, you get your encouragement on Sunday mornings from the pulpit and from the corporate worship of CHrist. You should also get your motivation from being around others through out the week. And most importantly you should get your motivation from quiet times alone with your Savior.
And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another(Hebrews 10:24-25)
Encourage one another, lift up one another that is what God is telling us in this verse. And every chance you get, meet together with others from your church and have lunch or dinner. Spend quality time with them so that you can grow together, and if nothing else be there with encouragement for one another when it is needed. If we keep this mindset we will stop starting every sentence about our church with "I" and starting thinking about the others.
Thanks for reading and have a great weekend!