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Cordeiro-Doing Church as a Team
By the very nature of culture and humanity, humans tend to be group animals -- they thrive in groups, coalesce into groups, indeed, the very process of moving from hunter-gatherer to cities was part of a group behavior. Within this essay we will first look at group normative behavior, intergroup communication and leadership, and finally the way in which group behaviors influence individuation and specific responses to that group's culture.
Group norms are defined as a set of internal rulings that are followed by the group members in order to increase the overall efficiency of the group's activity. These norms usually refer to the members' behavior towards themselves, their hierarchical superior and group outsiders, as well as to their approach and attitude towards the work they are expected to perform. Norms determine the way in which groups solve problems, make decisions and do their work. They influence interactions between members and between the group and the facilitator. Norms reflect the group's culture of shared values....
The norms differ from one group to another; however, there are typically sets of commonly used rules. These refer to: taboo subjects, open expression of feelings, interrupting or challenging the tutor, volunteering one's services, avoiding conflict, length and frequency of contributions. Additionally, group norms tend to cluster around four types of activity: participation, decision making, mutual aid, and affective expressions.
Pastor Wayne Cordeiro is the founder of the New Hope Christian Fellowship in Honolulu, Hawaii. This organization is known as one of the ten most innovative churches in America, and boasts attendance of over 10,000 per week. Pastor Cordeiro has written several books, among which Doing Church as a Team focuses on the responsibilities of both leadership and team building for all members of the spiritual community, not just those ordained. Indeed, the central focus is to epitomize the teachings of Jesus and then Paul in helping to spread the Gospel of love to the masses and to allow them to have the opportunity to become saved through the…
Thus, a recurring theme throughout Doing Church as a Team, not only focuses on the very real nature that it is never an individual undertaking from the ordained clergy, but a combination of a set of goals that continue to evolve and change just as the needs of the individual. Quoting Psalms 27:11, Cordeiro notes, "Teach me Thy way, O Lord, and lead me in a level path." To be a true leader, to be a true effective member of a spiritual group, one must act in a manner that is not the frenzied approach of darting from one tasty blossom to another, but a considered and level effort -- much like the tortoise in the Aesop fable, with regular, steady progress -- and eyes on the goal. Only in this manner, can the ebb and flow of success and failure be mitigated and the true nature of the contemporary Christian be realized in an effective and advantageous manner.
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Cordeiro, W. (2004). Doing Church as a Team. Ventura, CA: Gospel Light Publishing.
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