When seeing is the first step
Sometimes when you’re coaching someone and seeking to develop them in their leadership, they run up against some kind of blockage. If you probe a little further into their background, you might find the roots of the blockage. What have they experienced in ministry?...
Scanning the horizon for what’s changing
I happened to be talking with a friend of mine who owns a bike store. He told me that historically, Thanksgiving through Christmas was a major busy season. He barely had time to ride—it was crunch time for taking orders and assembling bikes. Now it’s different. It...
The follow through is what makes the difference
Yesterday’s entry was about Pastor Tad Blackburn’s experience using a retreat setting to process the results of the discipleship assessment. One observation I made was how crucial the follow through is. People could have had any number of breakthrough insights at the...
A discipleship assessment retreat
When we were in the beta testing phase of our discipleship assessment instrument, Tad Blackburn, pastor with The Vineyard Church, decided to try out the assessment in a retreat setting. He shares here from his experience: When we started with the discipleship...