How is your church operated?

• As a team or a corporation?
• As a family or an institution?
• High control or low control?
• Low accountability or high accountability?

If you consider what Jesus did, what the apostles did, what the Scripture says about church, you conclude:

The church is:

• A team.
• A family.
• Low control.
• High accountability.

A team operates by spiritual gifts and callings.

An organization uses positions, status, jobs.

Church as team demonstrates:

• Everyone is a minister, each one has a ministry.
• We are all coworkers.
• We are all building blocks of a holy temple.
• We have different gifts, but the same objective (1 Peter 2:4-5; 9).

The church as team is community.

• Family of God.
• A holy nation.
• A Kingdom.
• Brothers and sisters in Christ.

Team/Gifts/Calling                                                                                          Position/Status/Job
Spiritual Formation                                                                                          Cranial
Culture                                                                                                                 Head Knowledge
Character                                                                                                            Competency
Relationships                                                                                                     Accomplishment
Organic (Bottom-up)                                                                                      Corporate (Top-down)

What do you think the church should be?