Filling Your Leadership Gaps

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Ministry worth doing is worth doing together.

 I sat down with a group of amazing people tonight.  These are my teammates.

If anything, I’m simply a player-coach, on the same playing field as every one of them.  In fact, many of them have done ministry even longer than I have.  They see my blind spots and rather than exploiting them, they cover them.  They’ve got my back and I sense that they know I’ve got theirs. When things didn’t go as planned at a recent midweek service, they were right there to bring it together.  Unfortunately,  I often get so focused on what I envision, that my peripherals are clouded and I don’t see those around me waiting to jump in.

I had to do a few things tonight that are almost always hard for a leader.  1) Apologize, 2) Ask for them to help me understand what went wrong, and 3) Recognize that their ideas were superior to mine. I was taking notes as some of them explained how we could have better handled the situation.  We’re still a pretty new team, so I had to give them the permission to help me make those adjustments on the fly.  Next time a dilemma arises, we’ll have the tools and communication to meet it head on.

All I know is that I walked away thanking God for the people he’s put around me.  Not one of us is perfect (least of all me), but I’m glad for it.  We get to do ministry together in a way that compliments each other’s weaknesses and fills in the gaps.

Tonight was realigning. Tonight was refreshing.

What are the ways you fill your gaps? 

What does “team” mean to you?