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This lesson helps team members understand the difference between character and leadership capacity and realize that trust is low when character is weak. Grasping the critical connection between trust and influence in leadership, participants will recall real-life experiences that either expose the trust gap in failed leadership or strong character that inspired trust in leadership.

Identify danger signs of a low-trust culture in your leadership team, church, or ministry. The purpose is not to shame but to awaken to indicators and encourage you to move forward as a team towards the health of High-Trust Culture.

Participants will discover the importance of knowing someone’s story as believers relate to one another and consider how significant knowing one another and being known are to relationships.

After the Danger Signs and Ask Me Anything exercises it’s time to review what we’ve learned.

This lesson helps to connect our motives to following Christ and realize that the only sustainable motivation is trusting God so that He is pleased. Participants will be encouraged to review their own experiences and see the alarming contrast between Christians who wear themselves out trying to please God on their terms and Christians who trust His love to obey and follow Christ. Leaders will begin to realize the importance of trusting God with their ministry.

Experience God’s love through one of our deepest needs– affirmation. Affirmation is a love word that ministers to the heart. As participants are affirmed, they will begin to realize who they are, what they do, and what they mean to the team. This exercise will be a starting point for all to begin trusting one another with their giftedness and with the mission of the church or team.

Jesus’ measure of righteousness is how we receive and give love. Our unity validates His claim to be the world's Savior. Grasp the foundational truth of leadership relationships–the degree to which I trust God and others is the degree to which God and others can love me, no matter how much love God and others love me. We will begin to understand the vital importance of establishing an environment of grace and relationships of trust on a leadership team and in community.

Participants evaluate the current environment in their leadership team, church, or organization and begin to realize the impact of these contrasting environments on their own lives and on their team, church, or organization.
This exercise is an opportunity for reflection and honesty. It is designed to help you examine your environment and identify areas for growth in grace.

The Exchange focuses on God’s protective love in trusted relationships and learning the importance of a community of grace, where permission is granted to access lives in exchange for loving protection. In this module, we will discover the relationship between past wounds and our trust factor, using biblical passages that undergird the practical application of God’s protective love. This love is critical to experiencing the truth that Jesus’ work on the cross set us free from the power of sin.

Gain insight into the grace of our God being a Jealous God. Understand that God’s love is protective rather than controlling throughout Israel’s history. Learn to desire God’s jealous and protective love. From this foundational Biblical truth, this same dynamic is in horizontal relationships. Knowing that protecting others with their love is risky makes the permission step vital.

An open forum discussion on protective love.

In this exercise, participants will process unmet expectations on our trust factor. An unmet expectation is the loss of something we haven’t even experienced. Unfortunately, the mind and body do not know the difference. It registers as an actual loss, physically, emotionally, and even spiritually. A team can only move toward the health of a high-trust culture if they deal with the trauma of unmet expectations and the bitterness, misunderstanding, and confusion that results.

Once we trust His love, God protects us. Applying this to redemptive relationships in the church, especially between leaders, you will grasp the same process. We encounter protective love when the protector asks for permission to access our lives in exchange for their protection. Having grasped the benefits of this love you will be compelled to trust God and others’ love in ways that will protect you.

Here is where we begin to think about and share about our own church or leadership team. Overcoming any past posturing or self-protective behaviors, the group will begin to admit to one another what most already know.

Comprehend the life-changing and eternally significant breakthrough that results from maintaining an atmosphere of grace and relationships of trust. The glorious potential of moving forward in a community that releases our strengths while protecting us from our weaknesses motivates us to embrace and risk all that we have learned. Desiring to be released to our destiny in Christ, we can trust God and others with our ministry, even when it’s messy, confusing, hurtful, unfair, and exhausting.

A resource of practical truths that apply the Recentered Intensive to study, reference, and even memorize as they move forward as leaders of integrity who Christians want to follow.

Having learned to maintain an environment of grace and build relationships of trust, your team will commit to the five requirements to move forward. You will also commit to trusting God enough to follow the six “I wills.” You’re ready for the result of doing the hard work of building and maintaining a High Trust /culture.

Congratulations on completing the course. Here’s what you have to look forward to.