Brotherhood/Teamwork
January 2026

Definition: Individuals choosing to come together around certain goals, vision, commitments, shared values, impending threats, and common interest, to accomplish a common purpose. The priority of the purpose calls for a team effort and cannot be accomplished by a single individual. (Legacy Outfitters)

Fire Pit Discussion: Focus Group

1. Read and discuss the definition. Ask, “Why do you think this is vital to our chapter”?

2. Illustrated in History: In the famous battle of Thermopylae, 300 hundred Spartans were able to hold and delay thousands of Persian troops because of the commitment to their families and to one another (brotherhood). Their teamwork allowed them to delay the vast army which ended saving the Greek city states.

3. References in the Bible:
a. Mark 3: 14-19. Jesus chose a team of 12 to bring the “Good News”.
b. Acts 13: 2-3, 15: 40-41. Paul had a team on all his missionary journeys.
c. Ephesians 4: 4-13. The church is one body made up of many members united in Christ.

4. Illustrated in the life of Jesus: Jesus did not choose the 12 because he lacked power to deliver the Gospel. He chose 12 because that was God’s plan. God wanted the “good news” to be delivered by a many-membered body called the church. (A team of brothers) 1Corinthians 12: 12-27.

5. Application: Questions
a. Are you a team player? Why or why not?
b. Looking at God’s plan, are we to be “lone rangers” or team players?The success of our goals rest in the brotherhood of our team. We are to be a “band of brothers”.