Shape the Team

Becoming by doing

Teams very quickly develop patterns and habits.  These are things that you choose to do as a priority.    These things speak to the team much more powerfully than what you say.  Your team members will believe what you do more than what you say.     So these patterns of organisation, of choices about what you do with your time together are effectively a second call to the team. 

• It’s at this stage that you become a community, committed to one another and to the call of the church.  
• This is the stage, then, when you define what you are gathered around.   So it’s also the time that people make choices on their commitments.   
• They will have to decide whether they want to spend 2 -6 hours of a busy week with you.
• You will be able to tell from the way that people prioritise their time...

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Step 6 Shaping the team LATEST.pdf

 Or you can watch this video from 2022 on Shaping the Team:

Helping your Team to Pray

Antioch's own Revs Ben and John had produced a video (below) on helping your team to pray - including developing both a practice and a "posture" of prayer. 

Our directors often say that in church planting, when things get busy, often the first 2 things to go are prayer and evangelism, and having a pattern or rhythm of accessible prayer in each church is an essential part of a church plant's ministry, as well as something which should inform and empower the evangelism we explore more in Stages 5 and 9 of the CP Loop. 

More resources on this theme are available below, or else click here to move to the next phase in the CP Loop.