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Teamwork

TOAM: Interview with Nigel Ring

July 12, 2011

Nigel Ring is a great hero of mine. I love the way he has faithfully served the ministry of Newfrontiers for decades. He has been so loyal, so humble, and so willing to lay his life down that the ministry of others might develop to the full potential. He has personally run every Downs, Stoneleigh [...]

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Why your church doesn’t feel like family

June 18, 2010

Mark Driscoll is at his very best in the following clip. Ever wondered how family and mission entwine, especially in a growing church where you don’t know anyone? Ever wished for more intimacy and a greater relational feel in your church? Ever felt neglected and rejected in your church? Ever felt like your church was [...]

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The Author Editor Relationship

January 19, 2010
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Woe to either the author or the editor who must work with someone with whom they do not trust or respect. For an editor, editing a writer you love makes the job so easy and fun. And for the writer, having an editor who “gets” what you’re trying to do also makes life so much [...]

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Social Styles – comfortable roles in church

August 11, 2005

It is more than a month since my last post in the long-running Social Styles series. I am not sure if anyone is interested in the rest of this other than me, but hey whats stopping me wittering on about this a bit before I go on haitus. Incidently, you will notice a couple of [...]

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Teamwork, the Great commission and the great command- task and people, ask and tell: changing the world

June 22, 2005

I am in the middle of a blogging series at the moment about teamwork that will change the world. I want you to see that both the categories of people I have spoken of and the two dimensions they are based on are reflected in some way in the bible. I showed in the last [...]

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4 Gospels, 4 Social Styles: teamwork in the bible

June 18, 2005

Regular readers of my blog will know I am in the middle of a series on social styles in church. I would like to suggest in this post that the four social styles I described in the last one are reflected in the styles of the authors of the four gospels. We can see this [...]

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Social Styles: different ways of interacting within a team

June 15, 2005

This post follows on from one entitled recognising differences, and is part of a series entitled “Churches that change the world” The social styles system takes two dimensions that describe how we relate to other people and uses it to define four types of people. 1. The Amiable is a person who is focussed on [...]

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Teamwork that will change the world- identifying differences

May 31, 2005

In the last posts of my long running series, I argued that churches led by teams of very different people will change the world and began to discuss what teamwork that will change the world looks like. The key point is simply this, that people differ in many ways, but that a simple but helpful [...]

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Controlling Personalities in the Church

May 30, 2005

Wittenberg Gate has two posts about dominating people in the church. The first describes individuals and the second what happens to a church when it is lead by an overly-dominant person. The bible never intended for the church to be lead by one dominant individual with no accountability. This is why team leadership is so [...]

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It is teamwork that will change the world

May 28, 2005

In what may seem like a digression from my series on the church I now plan to spend some while speaking about teamwork. A couple of previous posts may help to give useful background, firstly one on barriers to community, and secondly one on the one-anothers of the bible. These posts are part of a [...]

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Churches lead by teams of very different people change the world

May 27, 2005

It is important to note that the churches in Acts were led by teams. This was such a crucial thing to Paul that there was an occassion when he refused to preach when a door was open to him because his team were not with him. This point is so vital that I intend to [...]

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Teamwork: what stands in the way of real community?

May 15, 2005

For those who have read the post from earlier about the biblical “one-anothers”, I hope it has inspired you to consider the need for community life and teamwork. I thought I would share a great quote about this with you “Community is the commitment to care for each other and act together- it is not [...]

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Team work as defined by the One Anothers of the bible: true community

May 15, 2005

Church is all about community, and teamwork. I intend to blog a lot more about team in the next little while (UPDATE: I have now done so at It is teamwork that will change the world) . To whet your attitude and to underline to any unchurched christian out there that solitary christianity is deeply [...]

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Social Styles Questionnaire- scored version!

April 29, 2005

Thanks for the many of you that have been helping me to design a new Social Styles in Church questionnaire. I think I have got it pretty much how I like it. If you want to know what the questionnaire means, perhaps if it is not too much trouble you could complete it one more [...]

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The Social Styles in Church Questionnaire v2.0

April 24, 2005

I know this must be annoying for many of you who are no doubt itching to know what your scores mean. I have ammended the questionnaire somewhat and it is now available to take online at Click here to take survey I am afraid that there is still nothing to tell you about the results. [...]

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What social style are you?

April 17, 2005

Am developing a questionnaire, and would really value your help with it. Please download it the questionnaire itself complete it then let me know in either an email or as a comment to this post the total number of each letter results you chose. (ie A=10 B=5 C=1 D=0 etc) I will explain the scores [...]

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