Community / Together

“For any team, if you don’t fight for community, it won’t happen. Community is the intentional pursuit of being intertwined in each other’s stories. It’s being a part of the highs and the lows together, being hope for each other, having fun together, working together, encouraging one another, helping each other grow and calling out the gold in one another.” // Paul McClure from The Heart Behind Community Nights

 

This popped up on my facebook feed and made my heart pause.

Wow.

This is my heartbeat.  This is my way.

Leadership is about community and having a common WHY and one heart, one mind, one purpose.

Together we do this thing.

Proverbs encourages us to “Above everything else guard your heart, because from it flow the springs of life” (Proverbs 4:23)

Everything flows from having a well heart, a heart in right relationship first with God and secondly with each other.  Vertical and horizontal health.

When our hearts are discouraged or disillusioned and unwell, we attribute negativity and bad motivations to people.  We are critical and don’t give ourselves fully to serving.  We are divided.  This affects attitudes and our own motivations.  We become hurt and offended.   It creates a gap in relationships, vertical and horizontal.

Our hearts matter.

When our hearts are well we are encouraged and inspired.  We are positive and motivated.  We cover and overlook mistakes, working together to develop strengths, serving with all we are.  We are unified and on the same page, able to be real and vulnerable and creative, discussing ideas freely with no sense of shame or fear.  We laugh and have fun.  We grow.

One of my great goals as a youth pastor is to create a leadership team that is more than just doing a job together.  Together we care passionately, live passionately, serve passionately.  This happens when we’re on the same page, where we are intentional about creating community and doing life together.

Together.

 

What do you do to create intentional community for your teams?