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    Formation Leadership
    Formation Leadership
    Formation Leadership
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    Formation Leadership

    By Chip Kawalsingh

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    Building and maintaining an effective team is no easy task. Even people who lead great teams will tell you they have difficulty getting their leaders to think alike.

    Formation Leadership is part of the Discipleship Programme in which both young and mature believers can be taught the heart of the senior pastor. It comprises a series of seminars to transfer the spiritual DNA of the local church to those who are called to leadership.

    Leaders need to develop their understanding of the ‘how to’ of church life. This book provides the answers and attitudes that can springboard any leadership team into formation.

    The Discipleship Programme is a series of three interactive studies designed to support believers in the local church at every level – from new Christians to senior leaders.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarvest City Media
    Release dateMar 18, 2020
    ISBN9781916015500
    Formation Leadership
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    Chip Kawalsingh

    Chip was born in Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean, educated in the USA, and has lived in the UK for over 20 years where he is the pastor and founder of Harvest City Church, a growing multi-cultural church based in Leicester.Chip regularly speaks at churches and leadership conferences worldwide, and has authored several books, including Giants Will Fall, An Extra Shot, God a Mocha & Me, Formation Leadership and the Partnership Guide. He is also the co-author of Building Churches with Apostles and Prophets and Keys to Building Great Churches.Chip is married to Sarah and they have three children: Brandon, Dylan and Trinity.

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      Formation Leadership - Chip Kawalsingh

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      OVER­ALL TEAM DY­NAM­ICS

      As we en­deav­our for the wider body to cul­tiv­ate relation­ships within the church, we – as a lead­er­ship team – must work on our relation­ships too, es­pe­cially that of the pastor and the wider lead­er­ship team.

      Con­sider a Formula 1 ra­cing driver. Although he’s the one be­hind the wheel, there are nu­mer­ous people work­ing hard be­hind the scenes to keep him in the race. Without strong relation­ships between the crew it would make for a very dif­fi­cult race.

      There are many reasons that someone might want to be­come part of a church, for ex­ample shared bib­lical doc­trine, or­gan­ised church pro­grammes or teams, a mod­ern build­ing with the latest tech­no­logy, or even just great mu­sic and rel­ev­ant preach­ing. However, those things don’t automat­ic­ally en­sure people walk in unity or stay the course. Only strong, genu­ine relation­ships can build a strong and ef­fect­ive church. Let’s look at scripture:

      I in them and You in Me, that they may be per­fec­ted and com­pleted into one, so that the world may know [without any doubt] that You sent Me, and [that You] have loved them, just as You have loved Me.

      — John 17:23 (AMP)

      Je­sus prays spe­cific­ally for unity, in­dic­at­ing that He knew it wasn’t an easy thing. In fact, true unity is supernat­ural. When the world looks at the church and sees this kind of relation­ship it ul­ti­mately gives glory to God and in turn causes a blessing to rest on the church (Psalm 133).

      The con­greg­ation take as their ex­ample the relation­ships that ex­ist between the lead­ers. If our relation­ships are not as they should be, then the relation­ships within the con­greg­ation will not be everyth­ing they should be. So how are lead­ers to ex­ecute their duty? Scripture makes this very clear.

      Not lord­ing it over those as­signed to your care [do not be ar­rog­ant or over­bear­ing], but be ex­amples [of Christian living] to the flock [set a pat­tern of in­tegrity for your con­greg­ation].

      — 1 Peter 5:3 (AMP)

      A true, genu­ine relation­ship is the one thing that can keep people walk­ing to­gether and build­ing church through the tri­als of life.

      1. The team is only there to support the Pastor

      The team may un­der­stand a lot about the church and its func­tions but ul­ti­mately only ex­ists to keep the pastor on the road by ser­ving him in whatever way they can for the good of the whole.

      And David went out to meet them, and an­swered and said to them, If you have come peace­ably to me to help me, my heart will be united with you; but if to be­tray me to my en­emies, since there is no wrong in my hands, may the God of our fath­ers look and bring judg­ment. Then the Spirit came upon Amasai, chief of the captains, and he said: We are yours, O David; We are on your side, O son of Jesse! Peace, peace to you, And peace to your help­ers! For your God helps you. So David re­ceived them, and made them captains of the troop.

      — 1 Chron­icles 12:17-18 (NKJV)

      David asks if they have come to help him.

      The captains gave whole­hearted loyalty to David.

      This was a Holy Spirit in­spired mo­ment, and in no way a polit­ical move.

      2. Two are bet­ter than one and a three-fold cord is not eas­ily broken (Ec­cle­si­astes 4:9-12)

      There’s noth­ing as ef­fect­ive as a team where everyone is work­ing to­gether in their area to build mo­men­tum. It’s like a well-oiled ma­chine. Moses and Aaron’s relation­ship mod­elled a per­fect ex­ample of a pastor and those who work with him. As we look at these scriptures we can eas­ily see how well things work when each one takes re­spons­ib­il­ity for their des­ig­nated tasks.

      The Amalekites came and at­tacked the Israel­ites at Rephi­dim. Moses said to Joshua, Choose some of our men and go out to fight the Amalekites. To­morrow I will stand on top of the hill with the staff of God in my hands. So Joshua fought the Amalekites as Moses had ordered, and Moses, Aaron and Hur went to the top of the hill. As long as Moses held up his hands, the Israel­ites were win­ning, but whenever he lowered his hands, the Amalekites were win­ning. When Moses’ hands grew tired, they took a stone and put it un­der him and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held his hands up—one on one side, one on the other—so that his hands re­mained steady till sun­set.

      So Joshua over­came the Amalekite army with the sword. Then the LORD said to Moses, Write this on a scroll as so­mething to be re­membered and make sure that Joshua hears it, be­cause I will com­pletely blot out the memory of Amalek from un­der heaven. Moses built an al­tar and called it The LORD is my Ban­ner.

      — Ex­o­dus 17:8-15 (NIV)

      Aaron and Hur were an in­tuit­ive support to Moses. No one asked them to help in this man­ner, but be­cause they car­ried the heart of Moses they knew ex­actly what needed doing without a com­mand be­ing uttered. That’s the power of relation­ship.

      But Moses said, Par­don your ser­vant, Lord. Please send someone else.

      Then the Lord’s an­ger burned against Moses and he said, What about your brother, Aaron the Levite? I know he can speak well. He is already on his way to meet you, and he will be glad to see you. You shall speak to him and put words in his mouth; I will help both of you speak and will teach you what to do. He will speak to the people for you, and it will be as if he were your mouth and as if you were God to him.

      — Ex­o­dus 4:13-16 (NIV)

      Aaron’s purpose was to help Moses. You could say it was his call­ing. This scripture doesn’t try to cover Moses’ own feel­ings of in­ad­equacy. Note how God saw Aaron’s heart. It’s clear that Aaron was aware of Moses’ struggle, but he didn’t see this as a weak­ness to ex­ploit into an opportun­ity to take over. In­stead, Aaron supported his senior leader in a God-in­spired way.

      3. Teams can be risky

      Everyone func­tions out of free will and no one can be forced to be loyal or faith­ful. As in a mar­riage, you can­not force one to love the other. Everyone who enters into this relation­ship un­der­stands what is required of those within the team and that

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