Follow the best-ever example of team leadership, and unleash your ministry's full potential! Modeling his leadership approach after the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit---the ultimate team---Cladis helps you foster successful collaboration among church staffers. The Trinitarian model has proved remarkably fruitful for Cladis and others. Discover what it can do for your church! 189 pages, hardcover from Jossey-Bass.
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Reviewed by Bud 'Mikey' Tierney (Uxbridge, MA), January 07, 2009
On page 6 of "LEADING THE TEAM BASED CHURCH" Cladis writes: "In a circle we can all see each other. No one is left out. We are all interconnected. We hold each other up."
Memories from childhood kept coming to my mind. As a young boy walking home from Catholic school I passed a Jewish Temple. I would spend hours jumping from the outer platform to a tree branch. Often I heard music playing - delightful, joyfully bombastic music to the ears of a kid who just got off his knees, telling God how awful he was for committing sins at 7-8 years old. Yikes!
I peeked in the windows. People were full of joy, doing what I perceptively called CELEBRATING LIFE. Gorgeous fruit on the tables, family members dancing 'loudly' in a huge circle. From Grandpa to the babies, holding hands, dancing in celebration of the maturation process of Jewish teens. I then realized that I often walked with a dark, even broken spirit. Yes, 'peeking in' brought the concept of dancing ALL together in a circle to a spiritual experience in my spirit. It was a God thing.
At age 67 I named my senior ministry "A Celebration of Life." I insisted on a circle dance at our first meeting. They left their seats at the round tables [not everyone liked this touch of celebration - too bad].
Recently I met George Cladis at Liberty Church. After a brief 'HI!' I told him "I read your book and I am watching you." He probably thought I was a critic. He couldn't know that his concept of dancing together in circles spoke so deeply to the spirit of a young city kid's future vision.
Cladis sees a collective community of individuals holding hands daily, dancing with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit "Where we can see each other [can this be really spiritual or what?]and Nobody is left out."
At Liberty Church Cladis is the concept-developer. I pray for the trickle down effect of his vision.
May God truly bless his vision and his ministry. I'll keep watching.
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