Trust to be Trusted : Jonathan Crabtree

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Over the weekend I have spent time with some amazing people from my church youth group who I was friendly with before, but never really knew well until now. Over the course of our two days together we encountered challenges that relied on full trust and I struggled with that, I myself am happy to lead, take control, be the director dictating what happens around me to aim towards a goal, but when I am not in full control I freak! Its not a massive freak out, but that feeling in the back of my head is telling me, "your not in complete control" and It bugs me. This made me think about how I react in other situations that don't involve my life being on the line 50ft off the ground (I was Absailing at the time) and I realised that this theme was resonant thorough my leadership, I would always be up for a challenge, take on all the main rolls, but never leave room for others to take charge, have the chance to hold the reigns, or even take a small part of the job and organise it. Obviously this means I am being drained to the upmost in time and energy because of the amount of work being put in, and the final outcome could be improved by some new ideas or alternative thinking, but in the heat of the moment I am too caught up in trying to take control and get it done that I neglect other members of the team who could help. 

 Im telling you now, if you are the sort of person who has lots of trust in your own abilities you need to look to your left and right and give over some responsibility very now and then. It is awesome that you have confidence in your own abilities, but life is a team game, and so is church life, if anything is going to work, people need to distribute responsibility and build up a teams moral, self esteem, and more importantly, create more leaders to branch out and achieve more than you could ever imagine. Also, if you know you have abilities and your not being chosen often to head up teams, or you aren't being trusted with the level of responsibility you feel you can cope with you need to take into account the "team" aspect I spoke about earlier. Leaders trust leaders who trust, and if you cant trust the rest of your team to do a good job, you need to get your priorities right. The task you as a team are tackling together at that time will last a day, or a week, or a month. However, giving someone a chance to shine, showing them the ropes, giving them a hand, and leaving perfection to one side will change that persons life for much longer than a month. Life in the church is not all about the end product of your task, but its about the end product of your team, invest more of your time in them and less of your time in your task.

 I pray that god would give you patience to co-operate with your team, take time out of the schedule to invest in the individuals and place them before your task, let your leadership have a healthy balance of task and team, and may all your hard work be noticed and give you influence with your leaders. Amen

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