Cultivating a Healthy Team Culture.
"You yourselves know how I lived among you the whole time from the first day that I set foot in Asia." - Acts 20:18
Leading a healthy team requires living in healthy relationship with the people on your team.
When the Apostle Paul met with the Ephesian Elders in Acts 20 he was able to speak out of the depth of the relationship he had built with them. Paul was not the kind of leader that barked orders out of isolation, but a pastor who "lived among" his people.
Unfortunately, many of us are trying to lead teams in the absence of any real relationship.
3 People Every Pastor Needs
Pastoral ministry can be lonely work for a number of reasons.
Some pastors don’t know how to have meaningful relationships. Others live under the crushing weight of a misplaced Messiah complex that keeps them from connecting with others. Often times church planters, or pastors in new churches are simply isolated and don’t truly know anyone.
Pastors preach the importance of community, but often fail to participate in it. The reality is, every pastor, just like ever other person, needs the right people in their life, in order to pursue health and endure for the long haul. While every pastor would benefit from a deep well of diverse relationships, here are three I believe to be critical…