True Colors
by Lauren Hodum
April 20, 2022 · Cornerstone Apostolic Church (Chattanooga, TN)
Kind: teaching

Source: https://acts238.life/repository/sermons/lauren-hodum--true-colors
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hey everybody i feel like it's musical microphones tonight all right if you already know your true color as i drop my things if you already know your true color you can find the table we have blue and orange over here we have gold and green if you don't know you can hang out in the middle find a seat in the middle and as we go you will figure it out all right we have gold we have green we have orange and we have blue my orange is back there they don't they're not paying attention to me herb are you an orange me too all right once you find your spot if you don't know just hang out here in the middle and as we go as we talk about it we'll kind of you'll figure it out all right you can go ahead and put that up there jesse all right so if i can get everybody we're talking about communication collaboration and you know i recently different departments growth that growth that discipleship growth our mission is to have well-maintained a well-made a well-maintained system that's able to help people grow potentially we can only do that if we're organized we're organized if we know one another one another we're aware we're aware of how our communication is occasionally putting people on our people's apartment a system is a system is only as good as its parts right so in teams and overall structure education happens the way we are the way we work working with others has a great deal to do with our basic personality okay okay so we have so we have our greens over here anyways okay uh oranges i'm an orange oranges and we have our blues over here awesome so true colors is a method that identifies your personality style by grouping your attributes into four colors last year if anybody remembers we did a little bit on the enneagram the enneagram is pretty in-depth and vast and there's lots of numbers and there's lots of depth and it's great for like a personal understanding of yourself but when it comes to team collaboration and um departments true colors is a great way to kind of quickly get a glimpse of someone maybe someone's communication style someone's preference of i don't know preference of project how they do things okay so think of people that you've collabed with in the past or departments that you've been a part of i'm sure some of you have found some people are easier to work with than others you have found some are not so easy some are easy also how about yourself have you ever felt misunderstood or that your contributions were not fully appreciated and sometimes because we're human we have these disconnects and we have these misunderstandings but that's because we we may not understand how that person communicates or how they accomplish a task my greens over here with my blues over here we have those who are led by relationships maybe emotions right we have those who are led by statistics and analytics and the facts okay so we can see we can see how a conversation may lead between these two groups right or a person in these two different colors okay i'm getting ahead of myself okay blues where my blues at all right y'all in the middle if you're taking the test or if not i'm about to i'm putting them up on the screen you can kind of read so blue is a relationship oriented empathetic communicative and harmonious harmonious strengths blues are sensitive to the needs of others they're motivating and encouraging to others cooperative always have a kind word to share i'd say that's true they look for meaning and significance all right some challenges we got to bring them up right sometimes blues may have a hard time voicing disagreement it might simmer right here and they may not know how to or may not feel comfortable voicing that disagreement sometimes lack practicality and difficulty receiving negative feedback can you give me a thumbs up yeah okay now how to bring out the best of the blue on your team so in your department in your relationships if you have a blue create a warm and personal working environment acknowledge them provide one-on-one feedback versus in front of the whole group especially if it's negative make use of their natural gifts and empathy and communication all right that's just kind of an overview of our blues then we have our goals which i feel like is one of the bigger groups goals are motivated by fulfilling responsibilities i love my mama if you've ever met my mama she's a gold she's like in my head when i think of a gold it's just michelle sloan keeper of traditions respect rules and existing procedures very structured okay as far as strengths our goals are great with timelines if you want to get something accomplished you go to these peeps over here they're detail-oriented they're able to break projects into manageable chunks organized and stable punctual and precise okay some challenges they may have a difficulty adjusting if there are sudden changes in your department under stress they may prioritize the project over the needs of the people may lose sight of the big picture work first and then we can play okay how to bring out the best of the golds on your team be clear and concrete be punctual be reliable if you say it do it take work ethic seriously try to avoid abrupt changes show respect and acknowledge their contributions now these are kind of overall so if all of these little points may not every single one may not speak to you but kind of think of the overall picture okay on to my greens over here the greens all right motivated by knowledge and competence they want to know why strategic perspective logical and conceptual far as their strengths they're critical thinkers they strive for competency they have great ideas theoretical philosophical and explore every aspect of decision making some of the challenges they may or may not consider emotions when making decisions they can lose themselves in the theory or they might forget to give positive feedback okay as far as how to bring out the best of them allow them private time to think avoid tasks that are repetitive assign projects that require new ideas and systems so if you have something new that you need to be done give it to these guys over here start with the big picture then give details all right the best ones in the room the oranges motivated by change and excitement amen derive joy from seeing direct results we are so bad at delayed gratification you guys i need to see it now creative and inventive and boundary pushers surely not okay as far as strengths as far as strengths goal-oriented impulsive and spontaneous enjoy solving practical problems always on the move and optimistic as far as challenges we may not allow time for adequate planning act before thinking easily board yes impatient with the necessary discussions play and then work potentially okay how to bring out the best of the oranges on your team hands-on projects performance driven environment make it a competition uh use visuals and props understand their need for movement keep it moving and just do it amen i'm just kidding okay so does that kind of give you guys an overall picture of each color kind of an overall so if you're here in the middle if you want to join a group that you think you are closest to that you relate the most to okay we have our relationships and empathetic peeps we have our chase the high and impulsive peeps we have our have the knowledge and strategy peeps and our responsibilities and motivated by doing things the right way peeps in your groups discuss what you learned about your primary color do you agree with it what strengths and challenges resonate with you the most all right i'll give you guys a couple minutes to talk with your groups grab a little piece of paper in the middle there should be a piece of paper and there should be some pens i want you to write your name on the paper and in just a moment you're each going to answer a question on this paper but hold on to it for now the disc question the discussion questions are up here on the screens go ahead and discuss in your group i'll give you guys three minutes to discuss these questions what did you learn do you agree what strengths and challenges challenges resonate with you the most you're not answering this on your paper just yet you're just talking with the peeps in your group and go three minutes yes you can ask the yellows to do this yeah come on hey you're a words person you got it the greens over here brought up an interesting point if you want to kind of tie in whatever color came in second for you and how that my my in impact your primary color oh impulsive um that's all i remember hang on there you go it's up on the screen you're welcome if anyone needs me to reference back to your slide let me i'm know back go with the flow man all right oranges is changing there's the questions um all right you guys your three minutes is up now you're in between both of them you're you're a nice equal mix okay so in the middle of your table there's little pieces of paper if you'll grab your paper put your name on it and here's what i want you to discuss for the next three minutes and write your response on the paper we've been talking about teams collaboration departments i want on your paper and discussing in your group what are some departments in the church that you're drawn to personally what are some departments or positions or ministry roles or whatever it may be in the church that you are drawn to maybe that you're already a part of or that you're interested in and how do you think that you as your color fits into that role or what would you add to that department do i need to repeat the question it's not up there the question i need your name departments you're involved in or interested in tell me what role or what value you would bring to that team as your color as your personality what value would you bring to that ministry department team as your personality you guys can talk about it give you a few minutes to come up with your answers that's weird i don't know what that is it's not the that's not the right text what yeah go ahead and write it down in just a few minutes i'm gonna come around with a bucket and retrieve your answers hey oh sure go for it do it whatever you want to write oh all right take about one more minute i'm gonna set this blue bucket up here at the front right here in front of the platform whenever you're done with your response you can come drop it in the bucket thank you sister jennifer all right sister jennifer or somebody at this group in the mic all right i'm coming around with the mic actually i'm gonna give it to you do you mind to share your response all right sister horton's gonna share sister horton number two here you go um children's ministry and i put because i like to have fun and am creative uh youth and teaching and teaching them that living for god is fun it doesn't have to be boring and greeting because i can smile and i like to encourage moms and wives thank you very much awesome all right from our blue team who wants to share ethan is being volunteered all right stacy sister stacy here you go okay prayer prayer i've been told at this table is because i'm caring and empathetic that's what they told me but anyway i'm involved in teaching i just said that teaching the adults i'm not sure i feel like maybe i'm a glutton for punishment in that department uh but i do enjoy it i'm not sure that i do it well but i do enjoy uh teaching as well and i'm not really sure how blue ties into that but there it is all right greens i'm coming to you who wants to share from the green team i will just pass it to somebody as soon as i get here i've been chosen uh nathan horton okay uh departments that i'm interested in would be uh security youth ministry men's ministry uh value as a green person yeah you know just uh ideas uh help to help with processes and systems of each of those ministries processes and systems sounds like somebody i live with all right a gold who wants to share i will always choose the volunteer here you go i i literally wrote fish fry so we're not talking today what is a 100 repeat the question to me um okay i am in um multiple different ones and i don't think that there's any more that i want to be in because i can't do anymore um which is probably part of the reason why i am this person yes um so i mean the nursery which would be the children's and then music and then media music children media um i'm very organized i think that's helps with the children a lot um for the most part i am very dependable and so i can make it to all the different things even though i do all the different things all right guys uh before you leave when we're dismissed take your slip of paper and put it in this blue bucket right up here in front of the platform thank you all right guys something just before we go there there are thoughts to think right so so here at the green table we were we were talking about sometimes our hardest job is to relate to you guys in the blue that's that's the hardest thing for us sometimes yeah it's yeah and some and and y'all guys i don't know i asked asked your husband i was like i'm gonna need some notes on marriage all right because uh i don't know what to do now so uh thank you thank you but but our right but our jobs are going our our job is to be all things to all men that we might by all means save some right so we have to learn that and this is part of it we'll continue some of this next week if you would would you stand with me and let's pray and be dismissed jesus we love you with uh we thank you so much god for all that you've done for us god we thank you lord for your kindness your goodness your mercy you've been you've been too good to us lord i gotta ask you lord that you would look upon each of our hearts upon our minds god help us lord to be able to to not just be relatable to one another but to love and to cherish one another god and help us lord to to take that and spread spread a net far and wide that catches all that the all the souls that the world has god help us lord to cast our nets and cast again god trusting in you directing us god telling us where to cast and help us lord to be able to do that and to make disciples and turn disciples into ministers god and we'll be so grateful and we're so thankful god in jesus name we pray amen you're dismissed in jesus name check your app there's some things coming up this weekend your announcements check that thank