McCraw believes that staff core values can help churches focus on what’s vital. These values can keep you on task, eliminate distractions, clarify your direction, and draw your staff together. Quite simply, core values help you identify what’s important.
Here they are:
- First, work as a team. Ministry silos are not conducive to effective local church ministry.
- Second, Be loyal. loyalty does not extend to concealing anything immoral or illegal. However, it does extend to giving each other the benefit of the doubt and having the backs of one another.
- Third, be encouragers. When staff members lift up one another with godly joy and encouragement, greater ministry effectiveness can occur.
- Next, work hard. It is heartbreaking to see a church staff not reaching its potential because of laziness.
- Fifth, communicate well. Poor communication can destroy a church staff and, at times, destroy the church itself.
- Sixth, be guided by humility. we believe the closer you get to arrogance, the farther you get from Jesus.
- Seventh, have fun. Having fun together weaves a relational bond that undergirds all our other core values.
- And finally, serve with integrity. We believe that consistency and character matter. We aim to practice the other core values and live godly lives, even when no one is watching.