The "honeymoon" period from Fluid Mission’s training session had ended some time before and Nathan was exasperated. They hadn't been in Indonesia for very long when he began sensing that he and several of his teammates were not on the same wavelength. "Oh, no," he thought to himself, "am I going to have to deal with this all summer?"

Fluid Mission’s training camp had been an exciting time. There had been the excitement of making new friends. The worship times together each morning and evening had been awesome. The team-building activities had been a lot of fun.

During that week, Nathan thought he sensed that his teammates were looking forward to the summer together in Indonesia. Now, however, with the excitement of Training Camp fading into the background, everyone on his team seemed to be reverting to who and what they had been before the experiences of that wonderful week.

As the group settled in at their ministry, Nathan sensed that the reasons why each of his teammates had applied for Fluid Mission varied greatly. Nathan wasn't even sure that his teammates wanted to be change agents for the Lord in Indonesia.

Some seemed to have come merely for the excitement of spending two months in another country.  Fred seemed like he was there to hang out. Nancy had said that what she wanted from the summer was "to learn something from the people." To Nathan, his Fluid Mission group no longer seemed like a ministry team focused on shared goals. By the end of the first week Nathan (who was intensely focused on doing Christ-like ministry) began feeling that his team was just going through the motions, doing what it had to do, with team members following a schedule of activities because that was the schedule of activities.

Were his fellow teammates really that shallow? Had they been faking it at training camp? Had he read them wrong then? Was he reading them wrong now? Was there any way to rebuild that sense of focus and oneness Nathan thought he had felt at training camp?

“I didn't come on this trip expecting to deal with conflict within the team," Nathan thought. But it looked like he was going to do just that. Nathan thought long and hard about things for a couple of days. He didn't want to come off as "holier-than-thou" or something super-spiritual. But he didn't just want to go through the motions all summer. Finally he decided . . . .

What should Nathan do?