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Coaching gives you the follow through you need to accomplish the goals you’ve set for yourself and your ministry.
How can you best equip your people for ministry?
What kind of training do you need? We design interactive training systems geared toward coaches, church planters, disciplers, pastors and key leaders.
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The high jump
Where should we set the bar in training people to do ministry? It’s tempting to set the bar too high too fast. An athlete training for the high jump wouldn’t start with the bar seven feet high. He or she would start much lower and then work their way up with...
Coming alongside missional leaders as a coach
Below is a meditation on coaching missional leaders that I originally published in Christian Coaching Magazine. As I think back on it, the material seems even more relevant now. More and more of my coaching lately has involved coming alongside missional leaders. Over...
Working in isolation
Many leaders get road-blocked on their way to reaching their goals simply due to lack of connection with others. It sounds simple, but it’s essential—we need other people along the way with us. We need additional perspectives and fresh ideas. We need sounding boards...
Going for a swim
Learning new ministry roles is like learning to swim: there are various skills we need to learn and then we need to coordinate them together. First we watch someone swim. Then we start working on individual skills: we learn to blow bubbles, put our head underwater,...
How to fail at coach training
Here’s a fool-proof way to fail in your coach training endeavors: Train everybody, right now, in big groups. In so doing, you’re denying the very methodology that makes coaching powerful. You can’t produce coaches on a factory assembly line. Good coaches are more...
Train in a way that’s consistent with your philosophy
Here’s a case study for you: A ministry that focused on training people in doing relational ministry started with coaching, a hands-on learning process, and focused attention on individuals. Its popularity grew. As the ministry gained more and more people to process...
The great unveiling: Logan Leadership website
This blog is now integrated into the Logan Leadership website-- take a few minutes today and check out the rest of the site. And in case you aren’t yet familiar with what Logan Leadership is all about, here’s the mission: Logan Leadership provides coaching and...
There is such a thing as a stupid question
You’ve heard teachers tell their students, “There’s no such thing as a stupid question.” That might be true for students—students might get a pass—but it’s definitely not true for coaches. Here are a few of my favorite stupid question categories. Whenever these types...
Real disciplemaking starts with nondisciples
You have embraced the vision of multiplying disciples—starting with someone who is not a follower of Jesus and walking alongside them the whole way through exploration, discipleship, and leadership development. You have embraced the vision. What you really need is a...
Dear Bob– counsel for a missional church planter
Hey Bob! My name is Jason Wood, I am a church planter and I am currently a part of a church plant and we are in the process of starting missional community groups that are to be the life blood of the church. Any suggestions? Thanks! Hi Jason— Congrats on starting...