notes by Peringe Pihlström
Our most common questions about teams:
*What is the
right way to start team ministry in my church?
*What are the principles for team ministry?
*How do you become a successful team player?
*How do you maintain unity in your team?
*How do you maintain the crucial key to success: openness?
*How to you learn to die gracefully from selfishness?
*What are the greatest hindrances to have a successful team?
*How to encourage diversity without loosing oneness.
*How do you encourage more productivity in your team?
*How do you build accountability into your team?
*What does the significant role of a team leader look like?
*What can you do to build strong relationships in your team?
*What a team is not
*How to unlock to creativity within each team member
*How do you bring change to a team?
*How do you merge new members into your team?
*What can unlock the resources in each team member?
*What to do when it looks like your team is falling apart?
*Celebrating one another as team members and friends.
*What are the reasons why every church needs a team?
*Discover the Jetro principle of delegation
*How do you develop a church committed to team ministry?
Steps to implement successful team ministry to every department in your church.
1. The Day Moses became a Team player!
"The real danger is not that you fail - but that you become "successful" in doing the wrong thing"
Exodus 18:17-27
The great Commission Mt. 28:18-20, same as Ex 19:5.
A people called to invade the world with the Kingdom principles. Now they are standing in the presence of God, ready to start. How is it going to be done?
God declares to Moses (Deutr 1:9-15) that his heart is right but his methodology is wrong.
Moses heart was right...
*His vision for the people was that they would become all that
God spoke to them
*He was dedicated and committed, ready to burn out for what God
called him to do.
But here is what he
needed to do...
*pull back to hear from God about what to do, and stick to it.
*when you are missing the will of God there comes anxiety, fear,
stress and dissatisfaction.
The plan of Jetro, to keep what God has given you, and delegate what is not given you.
Stick to that which you cannot delegate, that which you are called to.
2. Developing a Team!
a) The effort of a team
reaches beyond what individual players can achieve. A team is not
just the sum of the best players, but in being a team you add
strength to accomplish the goals.
"A team will be as strong as the team members, not just as
the leader.
b) What a team is not:
*a group, or individuals with separate visions
c) What a team is:
*One, one vision, one agenda
*The corporate vision is greater than the sum of the individual
visions.
d) Characteristics of a
team:
*shared goals
* interdependence - we need each other's wisdom, experience,
anointings to reach our goal
* commitment to understand that working together is more
effective than working as individuals.
* accountability as a functioning unit (people don't do what you
expect, but what you inspect)
e) Who should be on the
team?
*all players, and in their position
*strength to one another
*only one team leader
*F.A.S.T.
= faithfulness
= available
= submissive
= teachable
3. Feedback, the breakfast for champions!
"Most people prefer
to be ruined by praise than to be saved by criticism"
(Peale)
"Get a friend to
tell you your faults, or better still, welcome an enemy who will
watch you keenly and sting you savagely. What a blessing such an
irritating critic will be to a wise man, what an intolerable
nuisance to a fool."
(Spurgeon)
Training without feedback is meaningless. Growth and development of a team, its individual members as well as corporately has to do with how you deal with feedback.
Principles for feedback
in a team:
- Everybody deserves it
- Goal: to build up, encourage, correct and help
- Not just one-way-communication
- Focus on attitude and motive
4. Building a bridge of relationships for heavy communication