301 Discovering Ministry

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301 Discovering Ministry

• Welcome to
• 301 Discovering Ministry

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Connecting to our Church Ministry

• 301 Discovering Ministry

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Serving Jesus
Adoring Caring Training Sending
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Core Servers
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What will we learn?

• 1. Dreams and Teams
• 2. Building the Ministry Team.
• 3. Empowering the Ministry Team.
• 4. Multiplying the Ministry Team.

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The Goal of this Course

• We will discover our place of service in His
  mandate.

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What defines COSBT ministry?

• Our Mission Statement
• 1. Adoring and Glorifying God.
• 2. Caring for people.
• 3. Training for the ministry.
• 4. Sending into al the world.

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Jesus Great Commandment

• Matt 2237-40
• "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and
  with all your soul and with all your mind.' 38
  This is the first and greatest commandment. 39
  And the second is like it 'Love your neighbor as
  yourself.'

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Jesus Great Commission

• Matt 2818-20
• "All authority in heaven and on earth has been
  given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples
  of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the
  Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20
  and teaching them to obey everything I have
  commanded you.

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301 Discovering Ministry

• Coming Up Next
• Session One
• Dreams and Teams

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• Welcome to Session One
• Dreams and Teams

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• Jesus had a dream of your salvation.
• Jesus built the team that would bring his dream
  to pass for you.

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• Matt 935-38
• 35 Jesus went through all the towns and villages,
  teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good
  news of the kingdom and healing every disease and
  sickness. 36 When he saw the crowds, he had
  compassion on them, because they were harassed
  and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. 37
  Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is
  plentiful but the workers are few. 38 Ask the
  Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out
  workers into his harvest field."

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The Commandment

• Towns
• Where
• Villages
• Teaching
• What
• Preaching

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The Commandment

• Harassed
• Helpless Who
• Sheep
• Shepherds How

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The Commission

• Matt 101
• He called his twelve disciples to him and gave
  them authority to drive out evil spirits and to
  heal every disease and sickness.
• Successful service is conceived in prayer,
  commissioned with empowerment and concluded in
  prayer.

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Prayer in Ministry

• One Hour of Prayer each day.
• 1. Workers
• 2. Doors
• 3. Fruit
• 4. Finances

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Jesus Dream Team

• Matt 101
• He called his twelve disciples to him and gave
  them authority to drive out evil spirits and to
  heal every disease and sickness.
• Appointed 2. Anointed
• 3. Directed 4 . Affirmed

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Qualifying for Team Jesus

• Ministry attributes are given to those who are
  faithful in prayer.
• 2 Tim 22-3
• And the things you have heard me say in the
  presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable
  men who will also be qualified to teach others.

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Team Jesus and the Core 4

• Wang Ming Dao
• HP Integrated Systems
• From information hierarchy to
• SERVANT SYSTEMS

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Recruit your Core 4
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Why a team?

• Teams involve more people.
• Teams maximize leader potential.
• Teams provide multiple perspectives.
• Teams share praise and problems.
• Teams provide accountability.
• Teams can do more.

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Steps in Team Building

• Look up to the Big Picture.
• Size up the situation.
• Line up needed resources.
• Call up the right players.
• Give up personal agendas.
• Step up to a higher level.

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Start with yourself (center circle)

• Be Secure Find your place in Christ
• Know Yourself Man in the Mirror
• Trust your leader See Christ in him.
• See the Big Picture Gods Plan
• Rely on your experience. The Word

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Where can I give the most?

• Enthusiastic Beginner
• Excited about doing something but has little
  knowledge about how to proceed.
• Disillusioned Leader
• Reality shock - the difference between what they
  expected and the reality of the situation. With
  knowledge, excitement and enthusiasm decrease.

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Where can I give the most?

• Capable, but Cautious Performer
• They know how to do a task, but they are nervous
  about doing it on their own.
• Self-reliant Achiever/Peak Performer
• With proper support an individual can eventually
  reach this stage and be able to perform a task
  independently.

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What type of leadership will I need?

• Beginner Directing
• high direction/low support
• Disillusioned Coaching
• high direction/high support
• Cautious Supportive
• low direction/high support
• Peak Performer Delegating
• low direction/low support

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• Next Session in 301
• Building the Team

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Welcome to 301 Discovering Ministry

• You become what you commit to.
• 301 Commitment to Service
• Where can I give the most?

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Who are we serving?
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What is commitment level?
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In 301 Discovering Ministry

• We are Discovering
• 1. Dreams and Teams
• 2. Building the Team
• 3. Empowering the Team
• 4. Multiplying the Team

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What defines COSBT ministry?

• COSBT Mission Statement
• 1. Adoring and Glorifying God
• 2. Caring for people
• 3. Training for ministry
• 4. Sending into all the world.

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Jesus Great Commandment

• Matt 2237-40
• 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and
  with all your soul and with all your mind.' 38
  This is the first and greatest commandment. 39
  And the second is like it 'Love your neighbor as
  yourself.'

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Jesus Great Commission

• Matt 2818-20
• "All authority in heaven and on earth has been
  given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples
  of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the
  Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20
  and teaching them to obey everything I have
  commanded you.

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• Welcome to Session Two
• Building the Ministry Team

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Look up to the Big Picture

• Matt 1337-39
• "The one who sowed the good seed is the Son of
  Man. 38 The field is the world, and the good seed
  stands for the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are
  the sons of the evil one, 39 and the enemy who
  sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of
  the age, and the harvesters are angels.

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Identify the Players

• The Sower
• The Field
• The Good Seed
• The Tares
• The Enemy
• The Harvest
• The Father

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Who are my Core 4?

• Name Type of person Leadership

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• Teams are built along relational lines.
• Trust (Love x Time)
• Relationship brings joy.
• Duty brings stress.

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301 Team Building

• Manipulation
• The use of influence within a group to meet the
  leaders needs.
• Leadership The discipline of exerting special
  influence within a group to move the group
  towards goals of beneficial permanence that meet
  the groups real needs.

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301 Team Building

• Building for a Purpose
• 1. What is my dream?
• 2. Who are my team?
• 3. What should my dream team look like?

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Building for Purpose

• New Challenge Creative Team
• Changing Challenge United Team
• Unpleasant Challenge Motivated Team
• Diversified Challenge Complementary
• Long Term Challenge Determined Team
• Everest Size Challenge Experienced Team

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Developing Team Members

• Add value to individuals and you multiply team
  effectiveness.
• Impart spirit life on a daily basis.
• Value added to cohesion stimulates synergism.

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Get the right people on the bus.

• Col 47-15
• 7 Tychicus will tell you all the news about me.
  He is a dear brother, a faithful minister and
  fellow servant in the Lord. 8 I am sending him to
  you for the express purpose that you may know
  about our circumstances and that he may encourage
  your hearts. 9 He is coming with Onesimus, our
  faithful and dear brother, who is one of you.
  They will tell you everything that is happening
  here.
• 10 My fellow prisoner Aristarchus sends you his
  greetings, as does Mark, the cousin of Barnabas.
  (You have received instructions about him if he
  comes to you, welcome him.) 11 Jesus, who is
  called Justus, also sends greetings. These are
  the only Jews among my fellow workers for the
  kingdom of God, and they have proved a comfort to
  me. 12 Epaphras, who is one of you and a servant
  of Christ Jesus, sends greetings. He is always
  wrestling in prayer for you, that you may stand
  firm in all the will of God, mature and fully
  assured. 13 I vouch for him that he is working
  hard for you and for those at Laodicea and
  Hierapolis. 14 Our dear friend Luke, the doctor,
  and Demas send greetings. 15 Give my greetings to
  the brothers at Laodicea, and to Nympha and the
  church in her house.

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• Remove ineffective members.
• Define Purpose.
• Define Time Line.
• Have regular review against goals.
• Begin with small assignments and test at higher
  levels.
• Create a convenient window.

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• The size of your dream should determine the size
  and type of your team.
• 1gt5 gt25, gt100, gt500, gt2,500, gt12,500
• Acts 199-10
• He took the disciples with him and had
  discussions daily in the lecture hall of
  Tyrannus.

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• A weak link can kill your team.
• Stronger members identify the link.
• Stronger members have to help.
• Stronger members begin to resent.
• Stronger members become less effective.
• Stronger members begin to question the leaders
  ability.

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301 Team Building

• Facts you must accept.
• Not everyone will take the journey.
• Not everyone should take the journey.
• Not everyone can take the journey.
• a. Cannot keep the pace.
• b. Refuse to change or grow.
• c. Do not see the big picture.

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• Not everyone can take the journey.
• d. Will not work on personal weaknesses.
• e. Will not work with the rest of the team.
• f. Cannot fulfill the expectations of their
  area.

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301 Team Building

• The Objective
• Revival requires 100 of effort 100 of the
  time. In revival there is no place for little
  pictures to be served at the expense of the Big
  Picture. Revival is not a once a week great
  service, it is a life changing timeless
  visitation of the Holy Spirit ministering through
  totally yielded vessels.

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301 Team Building, a Catalyst

• A catalyst works within the team to move it
  toward goals
• 1. It increases the value of each member.
• 2. It increases individual commitment to shared
  vales.
• 3. It reminds us of the Big Picture.
• 4. It uplifts other team members.

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• My Team is
• _____________________
• _____________________
• _____________________
• _____________________
• Our purpose is ______________________
• _______________ _____________________

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• I am adding value to team members by
• ____________________________________
• ____________________________________
• ____________________________________

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• What have we learned so far?
• Dreams and Teams
• Building the Team
• Still to Come
• Empowering the Team
• Multiplying the Team

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• For next session,
• Please complete the handout.
• Determine a simple purpose statement.
• Identify the first 4 people who will be on your
  team.
• Qualify them according to leadership needed.

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• Welcome to Session Three
• Empowering Your Team

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• Coming next
• Session Three
• Empowering Your Team

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Jesus Commandment

• Matt 2237-40
• 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and
  with all your soul and with all your mind.' 38
  This is the first and greatest commandment. 39
  And the second is like it 'Love your neighbor as
  yourself.'

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Jesus Commission

• Matt 2818-20
• "All authority in heaven and on earth has been
  given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples
  of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the
  Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20
  and teaching them to obey everything I have
  commanded you.

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301 Discovering Ministry

• Our COSBT Mission Statement
• Adoring and Glorifying God
• Caring for people
• Training for ministry
• Sending into all the earth

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• My Team is
• Our Purpose is

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• Empowerment begins with
• Shared Information

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• Sharing Accurate Information
• Let people understand the current situation in
  clearer terms.
• Begins to build trust in the organization.
• Breaks down Information is Power structures
  and games.

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• Sharing Accurate Information
• Helps people become responsible.
• Encourages others to act like owners.

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• Shared Accurate Information
• Establishing Shared Values
• Purpose to fulfill the great
  commission.
• Value to add to the purchased
  possession.
• Image an empowered church.

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• Purpose What business are you in?
• Value Operational Guidelines
• Image Picture of the Future
• Goals Who, what, where, when, how
• Roles Who will do what when.
• Structures How do you support what you do?

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• 4 Questions your team must answer.
• 1. What is Gods purpose for our team?
• 2. What am I to do to flow with it?
• 3. For what specifically am I to pray
  concerning that purpose?
• 4. How does my part affect the whole?

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• Assessment of Cost to Value ratio.
• Matt 2534-46
• 34 "Then the King will say to those on his right,
  'Come, you who are blessed by my Father take
  your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you
  since the creation of the world. 35 For I was
  hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was
  thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was
  a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed
  clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you
  looked after me, I was in prison and you came to
  visit me.'
• 37 "Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord,
  when did we see you hungry and feed you, or
  thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 When
  did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or
  needing clothes and clothe you? 39 When did we
  see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?'
• 40 "The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth,
  whatever you did for one of the least of these
  brothers of mine, you did for me.'
• 41 "Then he will say to those on his left,
  'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the
  eternal fire prepared for the devil and his
  angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me
  nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me
  nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did
  not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did
  not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you
  did not look after me.'
• 44 "They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see
  you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing
  clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help
  you?'
• 45 "He will reply, 'I tell you the truth,
  whatever you did not do for one of the least of
  these, you did not do for me.'
• 46 "Then they will go away to eternal punishment,
  but the righteous to eternal life."

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• If a team does not reach its potential, it is
  almost always because of a payment issue.

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Empowering Your Team

• The Price Must be Paid by Everyone.
• Individuality gtgtgtgtgt Cohesion gtgtgtgtgt
• Synergism

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• The price must be paid all the time.
• Trust (Love x Time)
• A moments selfishness can undermine years of
  trust building relationship.
• Growth in A Growth in B Exponential Growth in
  a Synergistic Relationship.

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• Team Synthesis (Cohesion)
• Exponential Growth in
• Purpose fulfilling the great commission
• Value adding to the purchased possession
• Image An Empowered Church

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• The price will constantly increase if the team
  wants to improve, change, or keeping increasing
  its corporate value.
• Adoring has a price.
• Caring has a price.
• Training has a price.
• Sending has a price.

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• The Price will never Decrease.
• 1. Sacrifice me for we.
• 2. Time commitment increases.
• 3. Personal development increases.
• 4. Selflessness increases.
• Trust (Time x Love)

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• The Will and Testament of an Empowered Team.
• Willing to make financial sacrifices for the
  team.
• Willing to keep growing for the sake of the team.
• Willing to make difficult decisions for the sake
  of the team.
• Willing to Empower others.

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• Price gt Valuegt Cost Relationship
• Cost is the measure of the difference between
  price and perceived value.
• Consider the cost of serving the Lord.
• Consider the cost of serving your core 4.
• Consider the cost of your salvation.

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• I will empower my team by
• 1. Sharing accurate information.
• 2. Establishing shared values.
• 3. Providing a platform for their success.
• 4. By paying the price to add value to each
  team member.

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• Review these terms
• Purpose, Values, Goals, Roles, and
• Support Structures

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• Leadership operates as the server in a network.
• Eph 411-13
• It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to
  be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to
  be pastors and teachers, 12 to prepare God's
  people for works of service, so that the body of
  Christ may be built up

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• Our COSBT Purpose Statement
• Fulfilling the Great Commission.
• 1. Dreams and Teams
• 2. Building Your Team
• 3. Empowering Your Team
• 4. Multiplying Your Team

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• Next Session Multiplying the Team
• This week please contact your team members and
  share with them the concepts of empowerment. If
  you do this, you will own these concepts.

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• Session One
• Dreams and Teams
• Session Two
• Building Your Team
• Session Three
• Empowering Your Team

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• Session Four Multiplying the Team
• Matt 2818-20
• 18 Then Jesus came to them and said, "All
  authority in heaven and on earth has been given
  to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all
  nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father
  and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and
  teaching them to obey everything I have commanded
  you.

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• Multiplication of the team is the result of the
  multiplication of individual values, and of the
  multiplication of shared values. When your team
  has determined their shared values, invest in
  these values and you will see the team multiply.

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• John 17
• v2. Authoritys Purpose
• v3. Authoritys Values
• v4. Authoritys Glory.
• v6. Roles defined
• v7. The value imparted
• v8. Words communicate value
• v9. Continuing relationships
• v20. Multiplication

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• Shared Values Define the Team
• Even if the members of a team dont share common
  experience, or have personal relationships, they
  can possess a cohesiveness that empowers the team
  to reach goals of beneficial permanence.

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• Determining Team Values
• 1. Articulate Values These will probably be
  the statement of life values.
• 2. Compare values with practices We are a
  family church, we do not worship as families.
• 3. Teach the Values Once agreed, teach clearly,
  reactively, and continually.

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• Determining Team Values
• 4. Practice the Values Model for the team.
• 5. Institutionalize the Values Every department
  with the same value base.
• 6. Publicly Praise the Values What gets
  rewarded gets done.

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• Multiplication is the result of the increase of
  team values.
• Leadership is the discipline of exerting special
  influence within the group to move it toward
  goals of beneficial permanence that will meet the
  groups real needs.

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• John 176-10
• 6 "I have revealed you to those whom you gave me
  out of the world. They were yours you gave them
  to me and they have obeyed your word. 7 Now they
  know that everything you have given me comes from
  you. 8 For I gave them the words you gave me and
  they accepted them. They knew with certainty that
  I came from you, and they believed that you sent
  me. 9 I pray for them. I am not praying for the
  world, but for those you have given me, for they
  are yours.
• Multiply Value and the Team will multiply.

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• Communication is the Life Blood of Organizations.
  You empower your team by sharing accurate
  information and by establishing common values
  through dialogue. Your structures were developed
  through communication of values.

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• Leader to teammate communication
• 1. Be consistent
• 2. Be clear
• 3. Be courteous
• 4. Speak through action
• 5. Add value with your communication

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• Teammates to Leader
• 1. Be direct
• 2. Be honest
• 3. Show respect, but do not patronize.
• 4. Treat your servants well. And empowering
  leader is there for you.
• 5. Add value through your words.

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• Communication among teammates
• 1. Be supportive
• 2. Stay current
• 3. Be open and vulnerable
• 4. Direct conversation to common values
• 5. Add values through words

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• Communication of Team to the Public
• 1. Receptive to input
• 2. Responsive in a timely fashion
• 3. Realistic
• 4. Maintain shared values at all times
• 5. Add value to others through your words.

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• Finding Your Edge or Uniqueness
• 1. What is it your team can do better than
  others?
• 2. What is your purpose?
• 3. What is your passion?
• 4. For what value are you willing to pay any
  price?

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• Finding Your Edge
• Personnel determines Team Potential
• Vision determines Team Direction
• Devotion determines Team Preparation
• Leadership determines Team Success
• Add value to your team by developing team members
  and recruiting new talent.

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• Finding Your Edge
• Leaders Transfer Ownership
• Leaders Create and environment for Success
• Leaders Coach
• Leaders Learn and Teach
• Add value to yourself. Add value to others.

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• The Multiplying Leader gives all to the Disciple.
• Tell me and I know.
• Show me and I learn.
• Include me and I own it forever.

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• Give Yourself to the Team
• You do.
• You do, they do with you.
• They do, you do with them.
• They do, and you go on.

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• Six steps in the Empowerment Cycle

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• Determine your Core 4
• Determine your shared values
• Empower them to develop a Core of 4
• Maintain relationship as they grow.
• Release them to purpose.
• Determine a new Core 4

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• Average performers are goal driven.
• Peak performers are mission driven.
• Multipliers are purpose driven.
• Jesus had a dream, built the team, empowered the
  team, and multiplied the team to accomplish the
  dream.

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• Congratulations you have accomplished
• 301 Discovering Ministry
• 1. Dreams and Teams
• 2. Building the Team
• 3. Empowering the Team
• 4. Multiplying the Team

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• Our COSBT Mission Statement
• 1. Adoring and Glorifying God
• 2. Caring for people
• 3. Training for the ministry
• 4. Sending into all the world
• Where do these values fit in your team?

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• What is Next?
• 401 Discovering Biblical Families
• We all relate to families. This course will
  prepare you to be a Christian Family in a
  non-Christian world.

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• Thank you for attending 301 Discovering Ministry.
  We are here to continue to help you build your
  team and realize your dream. Do not hesitate to
  call upon us at any time.

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