The Evangel Dean Basic Training Resource Handbook

S EMINARS • 35

a. “To understand and embrace, at every level of team involvement, our mutually agreed-upon and clearly stated mission, purpose, and goal statement” b. “To articulate in a team is to envision for the team the dream, end, and goal it is and will be pursuing throughout the ‘season’” a. This principle involves the vision that underlies the terms of the team’s mutual association, i.e., “Why are we together, and what do we want?” b. The content of articulation in a team context is its shared visions, convictions, beliefs, and values, along with its reciprocal determination to live these out together effectively as a unit.

3. The Principle Explained

c. The opposite of Articulation is silence or mumbling regarding the vision.

d. The result of no articulation is confusion among the members of the team.

4. The Golden Key: Let the leader blow a certain sound! (1 Cor. 14.8).

B. Welcome and involve every member as a full participant: The Principle of INCORPORATION.

1. Key Scripture: Rom. 15.4-7

2. Definition of the Concept

a. “To be received into a particular group of people who have intentionally bonded themselves together in order to embody and/or attain a common purpose or end”

b. When we incorporate a new member into our team, our first priority is:

(1) To unite, blend, or combine the person(s) into our already-existent structures in order to . . .