Ministry & Church Management:  You can’t do it by yourself. You need a team. 

You need a team if you’re going to minister effectively. By “team,” we don’t mean a bunch of people who want to run the church. We don’t mean an “official board.” Official Boards aren’t known for their zeal, fire, and motivational abilities. No, you need a Ministry Team. 

You need to find people who want the Lord's blessing as badly as you do. How do you do this? First, demonstrate clearly what you are, what you have found out about walking with the Lord, and how excited you are about your abundant life in Christ Jesus.  You may not have money, but you can at least have zeal!  

The truth will reach a lot of people, so you preach the Word. Testimony reaches still more, so you share your testimonies regularly and make room in your Sunday services for at least one person to share a testimony of the Lord’s working in their life.  

Then, you have to be an exciting person to be around. You can’t be a flat-line who is always down in the dumps and expect to grow a group of people. You have to bring in faith, hope and love. Faith in what God can and will do for that person and in your own life. Hope – excitement about the future; yours and theirs, and then you have to have a thick dose of love. Genuinely caring about and liking the other person, and everyone else who happens to come around or be talked about!  

You can't afford to be negative about anybody. It takes these three; faith, hope and love to get a person up and going in the things of the Lord, while they're building their own momentum.  You have to supply it. Where do you get it? From your walk with the Lord. 

You go out of your way to make people feel so good about life, the Lord and themselves when they are with you, that they want to be with you more. The way to be with you more is to come to your meetings! You don't want them to come to your meetings and feel bad about themselves or their walk with the Lord, you want them to feel good bout themselves and where they are in the Lord – while giving them the hunger to know Him more. So you edify them, build them up, not tear them down and beat them.  

You want to make sure that they feel good when you are around. This is simply a choice and a commitment that you make, and a skill that you develop. You love them, you don't criticize them. You understand them and love them. 

You love them and believe in them when they don't even believe in themselves and when no one else believes in them. Do this, and they will grow, get their own self image up and will love and believe in you.

While doing this, you will begin to note different strengths, different giftings, different burdens that various ones have. You will find that the Lord has given you people to help you carry out the work of the ministry – and they will love you and stick with you for molding them and leading them. Like someone said, “If you don't learn how to mold them, you won't be able to hold them.”

Copyright Steven L. Davis  www.SteveDavis.org