EE Leaders | Leadership Lessons Season 1 Episode 17 - A Team Approach
Peyton Jones, Longbeach, California, is an author, church planter, leadership trainer, podcaster, and writer. In this week’s episode, Peyton talks about the strike team approach to ministry, based on the model of Paul, what a strike team looks like and what it’s made up of. We know from his epistles that Paul did not go alone and that he moved very quickly in teams. Ephesians 4 describes the roles of team members as they have been gifted by God: He gave gifts to men…And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ.(Ephesians 4:8, 11-12). Jesus is the only one who embodied all five of these Himself, but He has given these gifts individually to those He has called to equip the saints. How are these gifts different from each other? What is their purpose in ministry? “If you had all these guys working together, imagine the powerful combination that would be. That’s what Paul imagined. In fact it’s more than what Paul imagined—it’s what he saw. And it’s what he did.” Read more about Peyton Jones and his ministry at peytonjones.ninja
This week’s One Piece of Advice about team leadership comes from Pastor Kevin Day, serving in Pastor Daniel’s home state of Washington.
One Piece of Advice | Build Trust
Pastor Kevin Day, Kent, Washington shares his advice on the importance of building trust, particularly when it comes to leadership. Over the past five years, Pastor Kevin and his church leadership have developed this idea using the TEAM model: great teams TRUST each other; great teams ENERGIZE each other, great teams APPRECIATE each other, and great teams MAXIMIZE each other. But the idea of trust became the foundational element, based on three steps. 1)Trust must be intentionally developed. 2)Trust must be intentionally nurtured. 3) Trust must be intentionally rebuilt. But how do we do this, how do we build trust? It takes time and transparency. It takes truth and testimony. There is no growth without change. There is no change without loss. There is no loss without pain. “The degree to which we are willing to change is the degree to which we will grow. No change, no growth. No growth, it’s a slow death. And we don’t want to see that. What we want to see is a living, growing church.”
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Quotes:
“Although Jesus died on the cross, and we know that His work was finished on the cross, for our justification, Christ’s work of kingdom expansion was not finished and He left that to us. He passed on the ministry of spreading the word of what He did on the cross…His ministry continues through us.” -Peyton Jones
“Not all leaders are going to be alike. The body of Christ needs to grow and grow until it fills out that Jesus-shaped hole that was left. And it will only happen as these gifts are working.” -Peyton Jones
“Apostles, prophets, evangelists, shepherds and teachers…That strike team packs a powerful punch. It’s a team impacting the community around it. It’s what I call the A-Team. They are frontline.” -Peyton Jones
‘Paul knew he only had a limited amount of time. So he would identify their gifts. He would strategically get them raised up. And then he would deploy them outward. And not just outward from their church, but into their community.” -Peyton Jones
“If the church will go back to this, we will begin to pack a punch. We will have people who not only know good theology, but they know how to do practically what they’ve been reading about or teaching about.” -Peyton Jones
Links:
Contact Daniel: daniel@eeleaders.com
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