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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Asking Powerful Questions:

“The purpose in a man’s mind is like deep waters, but a man of understanding will draw it out.”                                                                  Proverbs 20:5

“The other day my son…
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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]

Ask Profound Questions…Get…
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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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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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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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Have you ever been surprised by the actions of someone you thought you knew quite well?  Maybe that Christian couple you hang out with has decided that they want a divorce and you are shocked. …
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There are many things to be grateful for: colorful autumn leaves, legs that work, friends who listen and really hear, chocolate, fresh eggs, warm jackets, tomatoes, the ability to read, roses, our health, butterflies. What’s on your list?
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Recently I have been asking Christian adults if they have any life goals and would they mind telling me what some of them are. This was not a test; it was just out of my…
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For a while now I have been using the term “Discipling Leader,” and I firmly believe it describes an idea that could change the church world. The simplest statement of the concept is this:  Christian…
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Chuck has pastored his church for five years. Over that time, he has implemented a home group ministry that has reenergized fellowship in the church. But Chuck senses that something is still missing. Small groups…
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We now have good research that says that church programming alone does not consistently produce mature disciples. What McNeal is clearly saying is that life coaching offers us a better alternative for discipleship.
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A church leadership expert talks about coaching and discipleship – Reggie McNeal, author of The Present Future, on why coaching should be the spiritual growth methodology of choice instead of just giving folks more head knowledge
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Will the local church accept the coach approach to leading and disciple-making? Friends have heard me rant for several years about “Why aren’t Christian coaches using their coaching skills in their own local churches…
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