Christ's Team: Creating a Better World

The Christian life is more important and more promising today than at any time in history, but improved teamwork is vital. 

FAITHFUL TO THE PAST, CHRIST'S TEAM IS A BRIDGE TO THE FUTURE

The book Christ's Team is designed to help the reader understand the role of Christianity in a rapidly changing world. The major premise of the book is that civilization on earth has been continually improving as part of ongoing creation and followers of Jesus have had an important role in that effort. The cover of the book depicts Christians around the world acknowledging their team effort.

 

Robert C. Frank

 
Please look at the slide presentations that appear below to achieve a greater understanding of the thinking behind the book.
 
Distinctive features of this unusual book are the following: 

• It reviews the fundamental concepts and practices of modern Christianity and explains why the Christian life, lived in God’s grace, is a better life, something confirmed by human experience.


• Christianity and science are shown to have a vital relationship in improving the quality of life for all human beings. 

Christianity and Science Need Each Other

Christianity teaches servant leadership and a form of teamwork, but needs improved technology to spread the gospel.

Science provides the knowledge for the advancement of technology, but requires teamwork for efficient research.

A beautiful new civilization is evolving, but there is still much work to do and its full achievement will require the best effort from everyone. This book invites the reader to become an active member of their church serving on Christ's Team.

There is a Study Guide section in the back of the book, but it can also be seen by simply clicking on the slideshare version of the Study Guide below. If desired it can be downloaded to your computer. Once downloaded, you can print it using Adobe Reader (landscape). 

SLIDE PRESENTATIONS

Author Robert Frank talks about his book

Christ's Team: A 21st Century View of Christianity.




A way of telling others that you are 
part of an awesome adventure.

To contact by email use christsteambook@mchsi.com

Teamwork in Christian Family Life

Family life has always been exceptionally important because extensions to the chain of life are created and nurtured within families. Not all families are ideal and today a family may consist of a husband and wife with children, one parent with children, grandparents with children, or two or more adults living together with or without children. In the Christian context, the family is intended to be a place where love is learned and life is nourished.

The birth of children is a vital part of God’s plan for the future and it places responsibility on the rest of the family to provide training and encouragement. Teamwork is essential and yet even in this 21st century, families rarely think of themselves as teams. There is a big difference between a team effort and people living together in loosely connected relationships. The team concept requires a well understood goal and coordinated effort on the part of the members. It also includes the understanding that every member is equally important to the success of the team in spite of their different interests and abilities.

Today the role of Christianity in the development of successful family life is more important than ever. Weekly worship services and Sunday School provide exceptional opportunities for helping family members learn to be members of Christ’s Team, a team dedicated to improving the quality of life for all human beings. By following in the footsteps of Jesus and teaching servant leadership and teamwork to improve the lives of others, our own lives are improved as well.
    Robert C. Frank
    Author of Christ’s Team

The Resurrection and the Kingdom of God

In 1994, my wife and I went to Israel where we visited the sites believed to be where Jesus was crucified, entombed and later ascended into heaven. We were reminded that most of the physical evidence and details of what happened at the crucifixion and resurrection had been destroyed when Jerusalem was burned and leveled by conflicts with the Romans and others over the years. So my head was filled with questions as we toured those sites, questions which will never have answers.

Jesus Christ, however, was the ultimate servant leader. A servant leader is one who looks after the needs of other people, leads by example, and teaches others to also become servant leaders. It is an enabling form of leadership. Jesus’ disciples continued to tell the story and teach others. Since then, 80 generations of Christian servant leaders have increased the number of followers of Jesus to more than 2 billion, a third of the population of the earth.

Jesus once told his disciples that the kingdom of God was like a tiny mustard seed that would someday become an enormous shrub. While we can no longer prove or disprove details of what happened in Jerusalem at that time, we can rejoice in the fact that the resurrection was the seed of the kingdom of God that has grown into a beautiful civilization in the 21st century. With the aid of science these Christians have been leaders in the care of the ill and underprivileged and that has resulted in improvement in the quality of life for all people.

In addition, today Bible scholars, noting the stains on its history due to a judgmental emphasis, are beginning to reveal an even more loving and open Christianity that has always been there in the background.
    Robert C. Frank
    Author of Christ’s Team