Greetings,
Relationships
are important to God as evidenced by God (the Father), Jesus, (the Son) and
Holy Spirit. According to the scriptures, each function according to the role
and responsibility established by God the God Head. MacMillan (2001) notes that
solid relationships are one of the characteristics of effective team
performance (MacMillan, 2001, chapter eight).
Temple reminds that
the goal of teams in ministry is to make disciples and that without goals and a
valid mission becomes a social club (Temple, 2019, part 2).
In
consideration of MacMillan and Temple's discussion, this writer's value
statement promoting the value of solid relationships among team members
believes that an effective team ministry requires an intentional development of
team members submitted to working together in commitment to each other,
communication that is positive and respectable, and collaborative relationships
not solely as individuals, but through a team effort objectively geared toward
a common philosophy of winning souls for the Kingdom as mandated by God for the
Church in Matthew 28:18-20. This value statement is in effect the ministry team’s
way of staying focused on what is important to the team and what is not
important to the team.
Some
key essentials undergirding this writer’s value statement is that building the
ministry team is:
·
Intentional and effective in what the team
believes.
·
Teams achieve greater goals as team members
rather than as individuals.
·
A Team is on body with diverse talents and
skills.
·
Teams have specifically geared skills that help
enrich and build the team united in
·
its scope.
·
Team building is positively grounded in one
body, with one common philosophy (Temple, 2019, part 1).
The question asks can teams be
effective without solid relationships? This writer says no because, as the name
states, it is team ministry, not solo ministry. Lowe and Lowe (2018) research discovered
patterns of mutual submission are witnessed through ecological systems, growing
not in isolation but rather thrive in "interconnectedness" (p. 37)
and communal models of "interrelationships" (p. 37), results-producing
assigned "nutrients and resources" (p. 37) benefiting the whole
system (Lowe & Lowe, 2018, p. 37).
For example, the parable Mark 4:26-29 illustrates the teaching by Jesus
that each person plays an active role in the growth of the Kingdom; however, through
the collaborative efforts of a man working with God that produces a harvest
(Lowe & Lowe, 2018, pp. 42-44).
Secondly, are teams limited by the level of genuineness and depth of relationships, or the lack thereof, among team members? Yes, teams restrict their potential to create healthy relationships when cultivating healthy relationships is not the team's value. For instance, Temple (2019) stresses that teams that lack relationships among groups produce weak areas in the team's building. Moreover, cultivating healthy relationships should be the objective all Christians seek equally in their individual and working relationships. Understandably, working with others is not an easy task, but with God's help and willingness to forge forward, success is achieved.
Bountiful Blessings,
Minister Sylvia Joyner 🎕
References
MacMillan, P. (2001). The performance factor. Unlocking
the secrets of teamwork. Broadman &
Holman.
Temple, T. (2019). Building the ministry team part 1.
[Video]. https://libertyuniversity.
Temple, T. (2019). Building
the ministry team part 2. [Video]. https://libertyuniversity
Lowe, S. D., & Lowe, M. E. (2018). Ecologies of faith in a digital age: Spiritual growth through online education. IVP Academic.
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