Growing Edge
October 1, 1999
New resources to develop your ministry
What does a New England Presbyterian pastor have in common with a Four Square pastor from Hawaii? Both are passionate about building teams in church.
George Cladis and Wayne Cordeiro have written two very different books about teamwork. For starters, Pastor Cordeiro pictures an ideal team as a canoe full of Hawaiians paddling in unison over a still, tropical sea. Pastor Cladis finds an ideal team in a painting of the Trinity that is almost 600 years old.
They apparently wrote for different audiences. Wayne Cordeiro wrote
Doing Church as a Team (New Hope Publishing, 1998) to convince lay persons to join a team at church. I assume this because he starts with the basics of salvation, "every member a minister," and the uniqueness of each person, which most pastors already have in the bag. In Leading the Team-Based Church (Jossey-Bass, 1999), George Cladis shoots directly to persuade pastors and church staffs to build leadership teams.
Like most books on leadership, both make much of vision. They also agree that it is even more important in church than in other environments to align the teams around the vision. A vision must be much more than a slogan on letterhead if the pastor is going to build effective teams. A healthy environment, created by living the vision, provides fertile soil for growing teams.
Doing Church as a Team is easy to read and benefits from Cordeiro's stories and colorful illustrations. The inspiration necessary to build teams in church comes from the direct call and gifting of God upon the life of each person. Pastor Cordeiro outlines his "DESIGN" course, a spiritual gifts inventory (available online at
www.newhope-hawaii.org) that they use to place each person in a ministry ...
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