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Who’s on Your Dream Team?
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The Original Dream Team! NBA source
I know it’s football season…
but we can’t finish our Dream series without visiting basketball’s Original Dream Team!
It was 1992.
The United States was determined not to repeat its 1988 disappointing 3rd place Olympic run. So, for the first time in history, the NBA supplied the American Olympic team with active NBA players instead of college all-stars.
ESPN called the superstar squad the “greatest sports team ever assembled”:
Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen (Chicago Bulls), Magic Johnson (Los Angeles Lakers), Larry Bird (Boston Celtics), Patrick Ewing (New York Knicks), David Robinson (San Antonio Spurs), John Stockton, Karl Malone (Utah Jazz), Chris Mullin (Golden State Warriors), Charles Barkley (Philadelphia 76ers), Clyde Drexler (Portland Trail Blazers), and Christian Laettner (Duke University). Head coach, Chuck Daly (Detroit Pistons).
And they brought home the Gold! Defeating their opponents by an average of 44 points/game.
Magic Johnson remembers, “The 92 Dream Team was the greatest moment of my life in terms of basketball, bar none… I look to my right, there’s Michael Jordan … I look to my left, there’s Charles Barkley or Larry Bird … I didn’t know who to throw the ball to!”
We’ve had a mass dream resuscitation over the last month. We’ve prayed for your dreams all over the world. You are making plans and beginning to walk out those plans.
So, who’s on your dream team?
Who’s going to help you make the dream happen?
You’re 2-time consecutive NBA Championship coach Chuck Daly.
Who’s your Michael Jordan? Magic Johnson? Larry Bird?
Who’s your center like David Robinson or Patrick Ewing?
Who’s adding a little drama but getting it done like Charles Barkley?
And somebody’s gotta perfect “the flop”, yet become #2 NBA scorer aka Karl Malone. Who’s your master dramatist?
If you could assemble your dream team, who would you ask?
Go ahead! Dream!
Every A-Lister has a dream team. At the Academy Awards, thespians thank their agents, managers, publicists, coaches, financiers, wives, husbands, mothers, fathers and glam squads.
Who would make up your dream team?
Hope’s Dream Team
H0PE IN THE HILLS grew out of our Hollywood Christian bible study. Almost a year ago, on the last Sunday in October 2011, Kevin and I invited 15 dream chasers and dream makers over to our home for bible, food and fellowship. I taught an 8-week “Mission: Possible” series in which each dreamer discovered his/her personal mission statement, purpose, spiritual gifts, personality traits, heart’s passion. Truly transformative!
By January 8th, we were tremendously blessed to be able to rent a space around the corner from our home, and folks started calling our gathering their church home. We formalized everything, filled out all the state and federal paperwork, and started praying for our city and industry. Many of our original couples have become our lay leaders, our dream team.
Our Dream Team (Prayer walk, Beverly Hills, Spring 2012), © HopeintheHills.net.
Kevin and I have the honor of leading a diverse dream team of young all-stars and praying daily to fan their flames, activate their gifts, help them fulfill their God-given dreams, deepen their faith and walk with Christ while encouraging them to model Christ’s life and make disciples. It’s an extraordinary privilege to speak God’s word, share God’s love and shepherd God’s leaders who are going to impact the industry and our world through their teaching and artistic gifts.
Jesus’ Dream Team
Jesus also creates an original dream team of 12 from various and diverse backgrounds.
Matthew 10 explains “Jesus called his twelve disciples to him and gave them authority to drive out impure spirits and to heal every disease and sickness. These are the names of the twelve apostles: first, Simon (who is called Peter) and his brother Andrew; James son of Zebedee, and his brother John; Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; Simon the Zealot and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him. These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: “…As you go, proclaim this message: ‘The kingdom of heaven has come near.’ Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received; freely give….”
Jesus commissions his original disciples to proclaim his message, heal the sick, raise the dead and take our darkness. Are we, his current dream team, doing the same today?
Jesus gives our Great Commission in Matthew 28:16-20 to “go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you…” How are we doing with that, Fam?
Your Dream Team
Do our God-given dreams and missions include Christ’s commission to us?
Or are we just trying to use His power to achieve our own fame and fortune?
The reason that the 1992 Dream Team won (and went on to become Hall of Famers) was that they worked together towards one goal utilizing everybody’s strongest gifts. Can we do that with our teams? Are we working towards a unified goal utilizing everyone’s gifts?
If you haven’t already, I dare you to start praying for and creating your Dream Team of All-Stars! You cannot achieve what you see in your dream by yourself. God didn’t create us like that. We need each other. I don’t know anybody who achieves anything of significance alone.
So, who’s your dream team?
Who are you looking for?
We’ve got our Jordan, Johnson and Bird.
Who you got?
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