A vital lesson about team from Fabio

No one is going to convince me that the England World Cup squad was not full of top quality footballers. The skills present amongst that group of 22 players are brilliant and show some of the quality of talent that there is in this country.

Yet we all know what a disappointing summer it has been. Here we can learn a very important lesson from manager, Fabio Capello: simply putting highly skillful players together on a field does not make an effective, victorious team. There needs to be much more to it than that if they are going to win.

Similarly when we think of those who work with us in our youth ministry, it is not enough to simply bring together energetic, keen and skilled leaders and expect great things to happen almost automatically. For a team to work we need to not just concentrate on the goal but learn how we can best work together, support each other and share the task.

It can be difficult persuading leaders that they need to meet together as a team to reflect on how the ministry is developing, to discuss ways the team could work more effectively and also to grapple with difficult issues, but we ignore these things to the detriment of the young people we serve.

The effectiveness of our ministry should not equal the talents of our individual leaders, rather it should equal the synergy of our leaders working together single-mindedly plus the blessing and guidance of God, poured out when his people are united.

Andy

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