Church Staff Values – Celebration (Part Eleven)
“I will celebrate our success and the success of others.”
“I will celebrate God’s work in my life and church sharing my joy with all.”
John Maxwell reminds us that if we don’t share our good news no one else will! The church wants to hear to good news, they want to know that we’re doing something and succeeding. With multiple services it is a necessity to be intentional about celebration. Too often some great decision will be made in one service and the others will be clueless. It breathes life into the entire church as they share in the joy of a life changed. I love hearing the response in a service as I announce a baptism from the previous hour. It draws our family together.
We must seize any opportunity for celebration and be as willing to celebrate others as we are ourselves. This promotes team work and builds solid relationships. If you can’t celebrate the success of the others on your team, you have a problem. If you can’t start celebrating, you might need to find another team. Because when one team member wins the whole team wins. I love that our staff is moving beyond our walls. Our worship minister has a website and CD out; our youth minister did a simulcast of a youth rally with other churches. When our ministers’ work is recognized as excellent our church is recognized as excellent and that blesses us all. When a missions team returns from the field and they have stories of the Spirit at work, we should hear those and celebrate God’s work through them.
These celebrations inspire the church and will hopefully move them to new places as they anticipate God’s work. Celebration is a powerful motivator and a great guardian. It moves us to positive places and reminds us that good times are coming even when things get difficult. If you’ve ever worked in the church, you know that too often you hear more negative than good. Celebration is what keeps us alive. It reminds us that God is at work and that he is using us.
