Building an Apostolic Team

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Building an Apostolic Team

• How did Jesus and Paul model apostolic
  team-building?
• Viv Grigg, June 2006

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Team-building Jesus-Style (summary)

• The Usness of God
• The first church was a mission team
• Called to be with him , to know him,
• Not just a work team, but a caring community
• Love God and do the Symbolic
• Earn the right to lead
• Recruitment Phase and he chose twelve
• Building Phase creating a team culture
• Advantages/Disadvantages of a team

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The Usness of God

• God is a community
• There is equality of nature in the godhead and
  differentiation of roles
• There is authority within the equality
• The Son given work by the Father (John 536)
• The Son sent by the Father
• The Father entrusts judgement to the Son (John
  522)
• The Son given authority by the Father (John 536)
• Community requires communication (John 5 19)
• Community requires friendship (John 519)

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The First Church was an Apostolic Team

• Mark 314
• Jesus defined who the team were
• Jesus defined the team goals
• First recruited to learn character to be with
  him
• Then to mission to be sent out to preach
• Build around the apostolic
• The apostle initiates, gets the breaktrhoughs,
  structures, multiplies, networks
• The prophet precedes the apostle, layig out the
  vision , the theology, the values
• The apostle recruits, trains, anoints, appoints

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4 Kinds of Teams in Churchplanting

• The Pioneer Team
• The Evangelistic Team
• The Developing Pastoral Team
• The wider network in which the pioneer lives

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Earning the Right to Lead

• Listen to God and do the Symbolic
• e.g. Gideon, David and Goliath
• Follow your anointing
• E.g. Gideon
• Wait for the Timing of God
• Fight the bears, learn to throw the stone, from a
  ling, Jesus waited 30 years, bury yourself in
  quietness to write a vision
• Work Hard
• It is the hard working farmer who ought to have
  the first fruits (2 Tim 26)

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Recruitment Phase

• He waited 18 months
• Social events
• Public Ministry
• God Chooses (John 176)
• Fat People
• Faithful
• Available
• Teachable

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Building Phase

• People follow those who love and serve
• E.g. finding Paul
• How you serve the leaast shows your heart
• Clear Structure creates security
• The goals
• The basis of commitment
• The division of labour
• Build the team around divine encounter

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The Exercise of Authority

• The Primary Basis of Authority
• From God (apostolic, prophetic) but let others
  call us prophet or apostle, we do not appoint
  ourselves
• From people (pastoral, teaching)
• From the structure (administrator)
• Understand the differing gronds for authority

• The Limitations of Authority
• We are not Christ
• People are accountable to at least 6 authorities
  at one time and must balance them
• We can lead to the level that people give us
  authority
• Dealing with Sin