Ott, R. Standley. Transform
Your Church with Ministry Teams. Grand Rapids, MI: William
B. Eerdmans, 2004.
OUTLINE:
Section I: Shifting to a Team-Based Ministry
1.
Discovering the Power of Ministry Teams:
The author gives a convincing case
for teams as a model for ministry and the issues involved in moving from
committees to teams.
2.
Understanding the Key Components of Team-Based Ministry:
Instead of the traditional focus on
policies and programs, teams promote fellowship, nurture disciples, develop
leaders, and mobilize for ministry. A ministry team is any
group of God’s people who gather for the purposes of connection with Christ, of
mutual friendship and encouragement in Christ and engagement in the service of
Christ. Ministry teams lead fellowship groups, study classes, mission trips,
worship services and virtually every other ministry imaginable.
3.
Modeling the Way: Examples are presented for good team based
ministry.
Section II: Getting the Team Together
4.
Starting the Team and Preparing for Ministry
5.
Developing Team Leadership
6.
Identifying and Inviting Ministry-Team Members:
This
section gives a very practical step-by-step process to start teams, develop the
leadership and bringing in participants.
Section III: Nurturing Ministry-Team Life
7.
Building
Ministry-Team Life
8.
Fostering Team
Discipleship
9.
Guiding the Team
in Ministry to People
10. Mobilizing the Team's Ministry of Program
Conclusion:
Get
Changed, Get Together, and Get Going!
This
section gives details of ministry-team life, including ways to build team
fellowship, foster discipleship and communication within teams, and accomplish
specific ministry tasks.
