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Team Building
This excerpt is taken from the Round Tables Handout, which you can download in it’s entirety here
TEAM BUILDING
Be clear about the function of each team member – eg, worship, drama, teaching on whatever, giving a testimony – AND what the expectations of each team member are: duties such as tidying up the accommodation, packing up after sessions, taking initiative in looking for things to do (eg, if you have nothing to do you are expected to be willing to assist other team members unless you are on a designated rest period).
Team building will happen as you meet for training, as you pray together for each other, for the people, community and nation you are going to. Have a few meals that are the food of the place you are going to – restaurant or make it yourselves. Learn to eat like they eat – with hands, chopsticks, standing up, sitting on the floor. Learn what is considered polite THERE.
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Next Level:
Mark Brickell tells us why
18/07/12 11:00 View entire series at: Next Level | Grow 2012
Mark Brickell, principal of the Vineyard Training College and author of the Next Level articles, tells us the reason why we are producing the GROW material each month.
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Making decisions as a leader
17/07/12 00:00 View entire series at: Next Level | Grow 2012
This GROW 2012 excerpt is taken from Vineyard College’s Next Level on Leadership, which you can download in it’s entirety here
How does a leader get the guidance to make decisions? John Wimber used to say, “God sets the direction and we get to organise the camels.” He was referring to God calling Abraham to go to Canaan without giving him specific directions. In other words, take the general idea of what God has called you into for guidance and make decisions about the details based on your own judgment. Unfortunately, one of the down sides of hearing the voice of God is that sometimes we expect to hear Him for all decisions.
I have heard a lot of teaching on hearing the still small voice of God for all kinds of minor details, the underlying assumption being that God is hard to hear but if we could only get our act together we would hear Him properly and amazing things would happen.
I have now come to believe that God is quite capable of speaking to us very clearly if He wants to and when we find it hard to hear Him, nine times out of ten it is because he expects us to make our own decisions and grow up. Someone is going to respond to this with a story about when God did speak to them about all kinds of daily decisions and great good came of it. I think God does do that occasionally, often just after conversion or in a time in our lives when the kingdom is near. I have experienced this myself. After that, He expects us to live by faith and make decisions using our judgment while staying open to hear His voice. To continue trying to hear God’s voice in everything is a path that can lead to Gnosticism, deception and depression.
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Round Tables
Vineyard Churches Aotearoa New Zealand are proud to announce a series of national Round Table gatherings designed to help us minister better together.
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What Leadership is and does
03/07/12 09:30 View entire series at: Lloyd's Leaders Letter | Grow 2012
This GROW 2012 excerpt is taken from Lloyd’s Leadership Letter Leadership Overview, which you can download in it’s entirety here
“Christian leadership is closely related to discipleship. In fact, discipling, mentoring, teaching, coaching etc are all forms of leadership. They are all about helping a person move from who they are and what they are doing, to becoming a different person doing different things. It is an incredible privilege to influence another person.
Leadership happens in the home – husbands and wives have a profound influence on each other, and one of the important goals of marriage is to serve each other in such a way that we become the man or woman God intended us to be. Marriage is the most effective discipling and leadership training programme given to humanity!
Raising children is all about leadership – we use leadership of our children to help develop them into the people God intends them to be. We give them support, nurture, challenge, resources, opportunities in order to move them from one degree of development to another.
As Christian leaders, we also are given an incredible opportunity to influence other people, who are not part of our family, to be all that God intends them to become, and to do all He intends for them to accomplish.”
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