Leadership Lessons: Struggling to Develop a Team Mentality 3

A third list of reasons why a church may struggle to develop a team mentality:

 

3. Individual's Reasons

Not realising they have spiritual gifts

Not realising they are meant to actively contribute

Thinking that only extreme talent is welcome – like in a sports team

Not motivated, not thrilled with God or church

"I go for what I get out of it" mentality

Spiritual immaturity and selfishness

Want things to happen, but want someone else to take responsibility: “you should do this”. (I think of a church that was exploring the possibility of church planting. It surveryed the congregation and discovered one portion of its demographic saying "do whatever you like as long as it doesn't disrupt my Sunday worship experience and I don't personally have to be involved.")

Two More Substitute Gospels; Col. 2:18-23

In Colossians 2 there are 3 plausibile-sounding substitutes for the good news of Jesus. Three alternatives to receiving righteousness in Christ that all sound like they might have some attractive substance. I mentioned the first in my last Colossians post - Mosaic law-keeping (summarised by circumcision) for holiness or spiritual fulness.

But there are two more in the chapter: superspirituality for fulness and aestheticism/self-denial for fulness. Let's see what the Apostle says about these.

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John 6:22-59 Jesus is the Bread of Life

This is an astonishing, mighty, humbling and devastating passage of the Bible. As I have been preparing I have been struggling and wrestling partly because I feel I cannot do it justice in a single sermon, or even five. But mainly because I don’t think I can do it justice at all, so astounding and profound are the truths that Jesus teaches here.
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