'The Christian vision of team is not strategic'

Dan Steel  |  Comment
Date posted:  14 Apr 2026
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'The Christian vision of team is not strategic'

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There is a moment in many church leadership conversations where team gets treated as a method – a delivery mechanism for a vision that is already essentially complete. The leader has the direction; the team makes it happen. The gifts of others are welcome, as long as they serve the plan.

This is worth examining. Because the Christian vision of team is not strategic. It is structural – even woven into the fabric of reality itself.

It begins with God

Before there was a church, before there was a world, there was community. Father, Son, and Spirit: genuinely distinct, genuinely one, in eternal relation and self-giving love. Diversity and unity not in tension or frustration but in perfect, loving harmony.

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