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Using coaching skills in everyday life
If you are a coach, take a moment to think about how coaching skills can be applied broadly to the full range of our everyday life relationships. We can use coaching skills to good effect with our friends, our spouses, our children, and even just in everyday...
You don’t want to miss this opportunity to confidently move forward on mission!
This is your opportunity to address the key questions you have about ministry in the "new normal" and move forward post pandemic with confidence and on mission. Last week, we announced an opportunity for you and up to 4 members of your core team to spend the day with...
AN OPPORTUNITY TO EMERGE FROM THE PANDEMIC WITH CONFIDENCE
Do you have questions and concerns as the pandemic “dust” settles? Do you have big ideas to move forward but aren’t quite sure how to get them off the ground? How does an opportunity to spend a day in strategic conversation with experienced ministry leader Dr. Bob...
4 Spiritual conversation starters for kids
Want to engage in some relational discipleship with your kids that isn’t too structured or teachy? It can be as simple as asking a good question and actively listening for what God is doing in them. Try using some of the conversation starters below! Questions to get...
Outreach opportunity
As the world begins to open for larger gatherings again, people are starting to look for fun things to do. I work with a pastor who started planning father/daughter events as soon as his area opened up. The events filled up more quickly than anticipated and largely...
Supervision and Coaching: Why Alignment Matters
I recently met with Ben Ingebretson, Director of Planting for the United Methodist and Moravian Churches and Author of the recently released PLANT LIKE JESUS: The Church Planters Devotional. I am excited to share his thoughts on the dynamic of supervision and coaching...
Helping people form effective teams for ministry
Once you have created methods for people to discover their spiritual gifts, their passions, and their calling, the next step is helping people come together with others to live out their faith. This often looks like building ministry teams. None of us, no matter what...
Two common abuses of spiritual gifts
I have been around churches and ministries for long enough to have seen some misuse—and even abuse—of spiritual gifts. Although spiritual gifts are biblical and essential for healthy ministry, anything can be misused in a fallen world. Here are two abuses of spiritual...
Helping people develop their gifts
It’s not enough to help people know and begin using their spiritual gifts. You need to find ways to help people keep growing and advancing in their gifts and abilities. It’s like a personal walk of discipleship; not a one-and-done but an ongoing and ever-changing...
Helping launch gift-based ministries in your church
Launching gifts-based ministries in your church effectively will involve a step-by-step process for putting gifts into action, moving people incrementally from discover of their gifts and calling to involvement and impact. Essentially, you will need to spend time...
Helping people discover their calling
There are few things in ministry more personally rewarding than helping someone discover their calling. The joy and sense of “rightness” they feel is infectious, encouraging and motivating. For all of us, our satisfaction in life is directly linked to the degree to...
Helping people discern their passion for ministry
Are you watching people slowly lose interest in ministry? Are people having a hard time finding a place where they "fit" at your church? If so, its time to step back and look at how you are connecting people to ministry opportunities. Discovering the passion God...