"Invite everyone." "Bring someone." These are words our church hears regularly about inviting people to church. I think the same is true for how to build our teams at our own churches, as well.
We live in a connected world. Our phones, computers and devices are all linked to a multitude of feeds, scores, blogs, and podcasts. For some, nearly every thought they have hits Facebook and Twitter. Our connected world intertwines every aspect of our lives, and yet we feel increasingly disconnected, discontent, and alone.
Our connected world intertwines every aspect of our lives, and yet we feel increasingly disconnected, discontent, and alone.
People want to be connected. People want to be a part of something relevant and important. People want to belong and to be accepted. People want to be part of a family that loves and values them. People have natural longings in their hearts for these things, and a personal invitation to join our teams can unlock the incredible calling and potential that God has for their lives.
3 ways to pull people in
Our job as tech leaders is to help people take their next steps on the journey with Jesus, and I would like to share three ways that God is speaking to our church that I hope will encourage your teams.
1-Reach Out
It is time to pull back the curtain and invite people to join our teams. We need people to serve on our teams and those people need our invitation. The truth is, people want to be invited and they are eagerly waiting for our invite. They are waiting for our invite to set in motion the mission and potential that God has for them as they serve on our teams. They are waiting for our invite to be a part of a life-changing ministry that helps transform the lives of every person who walks into our churches.
2-Connect
We are not designed to live alone, and effective life transformation happens in relationships. As tech leaders, we need to be community builders. People in community will stay together a long time and develop a history together. They will journey through life together and minister to each other. They will pull the very best out of each other and, most importantly, they will invite others to join in that community.
3-Disciple & develop
… if you’re tired and burned out, it’s because you are designed to build a team, and not be the team.
God created us all to be kingdom leaders, and part of our job is to disciple people from lost to leader. Once we have invited and connected someone into community, we get to walk with them and [help] them develop. We get to reproduce the technical and spiritual gifts that God has placed in us, into them. We get to help them discover their kingdom leadership potential. We get to help them become the disciple-making disciples that God created them to be: inviting, equipping, developing, leading, and changing the lives of everyone that God places in their path.
So if you’re tired and burned out, it’s because you are designed to build a team, and not be the team. This culture has transformed our church and my prayer is that it will do similar for yours too.
-- Author Chris Kozen serves as worship production coordinator at Valley Creek Church, a growing multisite located in Flower Mound, Texas. Valley Creek is the location of Church Production LIVE's next Tribe Church Tech Team Development Summit on May 7-8, 2018. To join Kozen, his team, and others in church leadership around the country at Tribe, sign up is here:
