Pastor Steven Furtick

PART 1

Dottie B. wants to know:
How about something re: other pastors in your church? What makes them such a great team?

Dottie, I could type for days and still not scratch the surface of all the things I love about the team God has built here at Elevation. I won’t even try to be exhaustive. Let’s just hit a few highlights… in random order:

-I really like my team. They make me laugh. They think Brother Barry is funny. And Black Bond, too. That’s important to me. I don’t get the opportunity to just hang out much with these folks, and I’ve never understood the doing life together phraseology. But when we do get together, we appreciate one another’s uniqueness, and we have a pretty special chemistry.
You should actually check out some of the other staff blogs, featured on my sidebar. You’ll get a lot of insight into the amalgamation of silliness and seriousness that make our culture what it is.

-I think our team as a whole is much greater than the sum of our parts.
Some teams consist of All-Stars who are all super experienced and super talented… yet their collective performance is mediocre: phenomenal players who somehow coalesce to form an average team.
Although the guys and gals around here are talented…
I think we’re even better as a team than we are as individuals.

-We’re fiercely loyal. They’re loyal to me, and I’m loyal to them. Period. We’re almost psycho about it. We’ve talked before about getting Elevation tattoos together, and everyone was pretty much game. At least they lied to me and told me they were. (We haven’t really asked our wives yet.)
The predominate mentality of our staff isn’t: this job will make a great stepping stone to bigger and better things.
For the most part, we’re trying to approach every day like this is the biggest and best thing we could ever hope to be a part of.

I love my team. I think my primary strength as a leader is the ability to pull potential out of people that they didn’t know existed. I have no higher ambition in my life than to see everyone around me become more than they ever believed they could be.
My team makes me better too. They’re strong where I’m weak. They expose my assets and cover my liabilities.

The best part is, it’s not just our paid staff driving this ministry to new levels.
God has drawn some profoundly passionate people to Elevation to serve at a volunteer level. I’m so grateful for this army of sacrificial men and women who make it happen.

I consider it a higher honor than the presidency of the U.S. to be associated with my team.

Hope that helped Dottie!!!