Every time Jenny welcomes a new person, her team misses out on an opportunity to do the thing they’ve signed up to do. Every time John preps the craft, his team misses out on an opportunity to learn or develop their own ministry skills and serve Jesus.
“Can you please be in charge of pack up after the church BBQ?” “I’d love you to help me out by chairing the staff meeting while I’m on leave the next few weeks” “Can you please check to see why Roger wasn’t here today?” “Would you be willing to do up a promotional image for Easter?” These are just some of the respectful and polite ways team leaders can ask team members to do something. Many of these are actually ways that members could ask their fellow members to do something. Most of the time that’s all we need to...
First, you have to lead the people who are on your team This sounds very obvious, but from time to time it is worth remembering that team leadership is about focussing on your team! It can be easy to focus instead on your business or ministry, or on what you prefer to be doing out of your skill set. That might be preaching, or pastoral care, shepherding the sheep of the flock — all basic functions of a pastor-teacher-leader, but not what we are talking about here. Jesus came to preach and teach and to heal. He came proclaiming the Kingdom of God...
