* Christ’s goal was to finish His assignment, and then empower His disciples to carry on the mission when He was gone.

* In business, this should be our goal as well - to set our company up so it can fulfill the mission without us there.

* But this can’t be done apart from PEOPLE!

* Jesus shows us the importance of your team.

* He was about to die, and so He went into the Garden of Gethsemane to prepare.

* Gethsemane means “oil press.”

* Israel was known for their olives - you would press them until the oil came out, then bottle it up and sell it.

* Jesus was about to get pressed and He knew it.

* So He chose to bring some of His closest friends along.

* This is so important - we were never meant to live alone.

* God puts people into our lives to help us carry our burdens.

* In business your company is only as good as the people inside it.

* Systems run a business, but people run the systems.

* A business is an “oil press.”

* This is why God used the marketplace to train so many of the heroes of our faith.

* Christ’s friends failed, but He knew they would.

* He put them on His team anyway.

* Because He knew they would ultimately “get it,” and “do it.”

* He chose loyalty over proficiency - they came back and a group of unlearned men turned the world upside down.

* And we’re still talking about it today, 2,000 years later.

* This is the power of building the right team.