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Bible Verses for Ministry Teamwork

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While we do not find Bible verses using the terms ministry teams or teamwork, we do find plenty of Scripture about how to function as a team. Of significance, note how many descriptions of the Church suggest the need to function as a team. Each of the following are entities that are considered a unit yet composed of many diverse parts that must function a certain way for maximum efficiency, productivity, and unity.
Ministry Teamwork Because the Church is Many Yet One

  • body (Rom. 12:4-5; 1 Cor. 12:12-27)
  • household/family of believers (Gal. 6:10)
  • spiritual house (1 Pet. 2:5)
  • holy priesthood (1 Pet. 2:5, 9)
  • a holy nation (1 Pet. 2:9)

Members Functioning as a Team Seen in these Bible Verses for Ministry Teamwork

We need some core biblically-based beliefs if we’re going to serve according to God’s design for interdependence and unity out of diversity — functioning as a team. Below you’ll find two of the six points found in the Ministry God’s Way Discipleship Tool. That resource identifies Ministry Teamwork as one of nine key elements needed for doing ministry God’s way.

  1. When we believe every individual is significant, diversity is sought, welcomed, respected, valued, and pulled upon.

For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. (Rom. 12:4-5)

Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. (1 Cor. 12:12)

Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many. Now if the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? (1 Cor. 12:14-17)

  1. When we believe in the importance of every person having a unique contribution to make, we’ll encourage them to do their part according to their best fit.

For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you. For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. (Rom. 12:3-6a)

There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work. Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. (1 Cor.  12:4-7)

If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. (1 Cor. 12:17-18)

There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called; … But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it. (Eph. 4:4-7)

From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work. (Eph. 4:16)

Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. (1 Pet. 4:10-11)

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