For me, one of the major elements of a spirituality for any ministry, but particularly collaborative ministry, is that it moves me to become a more compassionate human being. That's the criterion I use for myself in my growing as a spiritual person. The third thing you need to be capable of collaborative ministry is skills. When we come together collabora-tively, there are all sorts of group dynamics. I've lived and worked in both.
Every group goes through stages, very predictable stages.
The last thing you need to be capable of collaborative ministry is maturity. Not everyone is psychosexually developed to the point of being capable of collaborating. If you want to collaborate fully, you need to be a generative person. According to some research studies done on people in ministry, there are a lot of us that are not yet mature, generative people. Sadly, not everyone has the capability of being collaborative.