The Teaming Church
Ministry in the Age of Collaboration
Create a successful team culture.
Great teams live and serve in light of the Divine Team―the Trinity, and to be truly effective they need: a deeply challenging goal, a creatively empowering leader, and a willingness to collaborate and honor the Bible.
Author Robert C. Crosby provides innovative ways in which biblical teams reflect the workings and nature of “the image of God.” Revealing what he calls “The Four C’s of Great Teams” – The Character, The Carrot, The Coach, and The Context – Crosby shows how successful teams reach their goals more effectively. Conversely, he also addresses the “Four Fatal Teaming Errors” and how to avoid unnecessary, time-consuming missteps.
This book provides biblical motivations, vivid examples, and practical approaches for creating a teaming culture in any faith community. Crosby, a leader who has built teams as a senior pastor, youth leader, and university administrator, is now training and mentoring a new generation of pastors and leaders.
- Discover how to turn a “group” into a “team”
- Cultivating Team Players
- Interviews with Ministry Teaming Leaders
- The Art of Teaming Leadership
- Essential Skills of Teaming Leaders
- Understanding the Trinity as “The Divine Team”
- Interviews with Teaming Leaders in Churches of All Sizes
- Creating a Teaming Culture
- Discovering “Circle Thinking”
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“Being on a team should bring a certain sense of comfort or encouragement to the team members. However, comfort alone becomes the enemy of a team. Great teams regularly experience the comfort of community, but also the challenge of collaboration, compelling goals and even conflicts. It is the balance of grace and truth. Somehow, they rest and they run, regularly. In fact, if they rest without running, they will ossify. And, if they just run without resting, they will grow tired and unfocused.
Teams are best challenged by having clear goals, frequent measurements of those goals, celebrations of goal achievement, and engaging questions that keep them on their toes, focused on their goals and effective.”
Endorsements
Teamwork is essential for effective ministry. Robert Crosby’s book, The Teaming Church, explores the essential elements of a team and gives a biblical perspective on how to surround yourself with the right people.
Craig Groeschel
Senior Pastor, LifeChurch.tv
The Teaming Church captures the most transformative leadership model in history, the ministry of Jesus Christ. Robert Crosby frames the optics of collaboration and kingdom partnerships that vertically honor God while horizontally empowering others.This book affirms strategic and prophetic cooperation for a generation that stands skeptical of individual platforms while embracing the idea of community.
Samuel Rodriguez
President, NHCLC, Hispanic Evangelical Association
