Often in today’s culture we can worship and idolise the biggest names, the celebrities who grab the headlines.
And though this is not an inherently bad thing, we can fall into the pit of thinking it’s the only important thing and we can forget everything else that goes into making a person or an organisation great and successful.
Whether or not you regard him as the greatest footballer of our generation, Cristiano Ronaldo couldn’t achieve the success he has had without a team around him. If it was just him versus another 11 men every game he’d get destroyed!
Instead, we need to recognise and appreciate that people’s gifts and talents are far more diverse than that, and that pooling everyone’s contributions is what makes a team succeed.
Yes we do need the stars, the Cristiano Ronaldo’s to play their part but we also need the admins and the finance guys, the Modric’s and the Ramos’ of this world, to play their part in achieving success.
In 1 Corinthians 12:28, the apostle Paul lists a number of gifts of the spirit that God freely blesses each and everyone of us with in order to serve the Church with. Among them are ‘headline’ acts such as prophecy, healing and miracle working, but on the same list is also administration. God recognises the need for good, blessed administration gifts in the Church because it’s important for it to run and develop the church going forward, and we need to recognise it too.
I first discovered I had a flair for administration when I worked for Fusion as an office intern in the summer of 2016. Even though I never grew up thinking or dreaming of being an administrator, my nature and skill set allowed me to enable the team to put on events and for students to find churches when they got to university. Today administration is something I enjoy and get energy from, and this is reflective of the gifts God has given me and how he wants to use me for his good.
I may not always be the Cristiano Ronaldo of Fusion or wherever I’m working, scoring all the big sales or winning the crowds with my speeches, but I do the important work of using my gifts as an administrator in order to set up Fusion for success.
