Coaching has enough of a buzz surrounding it that it seems to be cropping up all over the place in today’s church. While that’s exciting news, it also means that people are being called “coaches”…
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How could you take life-on-life discipleship to the next level? By taking it down — all the way to the heart. Interested?
The life-on-life approach to discipleship is the best way I have seen to…
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According to the Great Commission, the mandate of the local church is to win people to Christ, enable their growth as disciples, and then equip those same disciples to launch out on their own kingdom…
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Ive been coaching church planters for over twenty years now. Church planters are a unique breed, often presenting distinctive challenges to their coaches. I know this because Ive also beenand currently ama church planter. I know firsthand how challenging we can be, and I also know what we need from our coaches.
Our international qualitative research project shows the outcomes of what good coaching accomplishes. We have isolated the competencies and microskills a coach needs to accomplish those outcomes. But one question Im often asked is this: To coach a church planter effectively, what else is needed besides the basics of being a good coach?
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[The articles I post on ChurchCentral are drawn from recent issues of Christian Coaching Magazine and represent a wide array of leaders and coaches as the authors. Thanks for reading! -Jerome]
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Ego Trap #2: “If I don’t stay on top of their work, mistakes will be made.” Translation: “I’m a control freak.”
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Programs come and go in the church all the time, and if you’re as passionate about training lay coaches as I am, you will want your first training to have a good reputation and a life-changing impact for the long-haul. The best way to do that may be to carefully think through how to recruit your first class of potential coaches. I recently had a good experience recruiting and training lay discipleship coaches in my own church, so here’s a first-hand summary of what seemed to work:
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…a recent Barna study suggests 61% of pastors have difficulty in developing meaningful relationships. In other words, pastors many times do not seek relationships for their own leadership development. Dr. Louis McBurney, a leading pastoral counselor suggests it is taught as a best practice in seminary; avoid intimate relationships…A personal coach can be the missing link for pastors to truly transform their ministry.
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What will it take for coaching to find its potential within the domain of the church?
I received an email from a friend who participated with me in a recent tele-class. “I appreciated hearing the speaker,” he wrote, “but I expected someone to ask a question about coaching in the church…and no one did. What do you make of that?” In my answer, I agreed that this was an extremely vital topic and that, although it didn’t fall inside that speaker’s expertise, it was part of the ongoing conversation we are trying to foster in the Christian Coaching Magazine.
I went on to comment that, in my opinion, the church is the new frontier for coaching–the place that has been perhaps least impacted to date, yet holds some of the greatest potential to be seen in our field…
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During the first round of our church staff coach training, he spent most of the time on his new Blackberry. A year later, during the second round of training, he informed me he was leaving early…Hence, we had a problem, since he was not fully engaged in the staff-wide coaching training which our senior staff had agreed upon…When the dust cleared, the following insight became obvious about the role of the lead pastor when attempting to inject a coaching methodology into the DNA of paid and unpaid staff:
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When we do coach training for a local church, were hoping for two separate results: transformation for those who will eventually be coached and transformation for the coach him or herself. The latter is often a surprise for the trainees because thats not why they signed up they wanted to help others but didnt give much thought to what God might be up to in their own lives.
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How important is it to get your Pastor’s blessing up front if you hope to start a coaching ministry in your church? It’s IMPERATIVE!! It is not wise to try to introduce something as life-changing and paradigm-busting as coaching to a congregation without the Senior Pastor’s agreement. But “selling” coaching to your pastor is not a job for the faint-of-heart. It can be a very challenging business.
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Brian Rhen, pastor at Peninsula Covenant Church near San Franciso, is patiently working with his church to become a coaching culture by adding coaching to the overall people development process – that is, training both staff and volunteers in coaching skills and then encouraging them and holding them accountable in the practice of these new skills.
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It all started when Robert Brown, an insurance agent in Ponte Vedra, Florida, had a brief experience with a Christian Life Coach as a part of a stewardship program in which his church was participating. …
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Churches who have counseling ministries are more open to coaching. Certified coaches can partner with churches who offer counseling through referral relationships, workshops for counseling clients, or even by joining the staff of a church counseling center.
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