Leadership
Holistic Leadership Development
You want to develop leaders who will do what Jesus called us to do, leaders who can take the church forward into the 21st century. You look to the fields and see them, as Jesus does, ready for harvest — and you know that’s where your ministry needs to concentrate.
What’s needed is holistic leadership development — the kind of leadership development that comes from the harvest and leads people back into the harvest, resulting in subsequent generations of new believers and new leaders living as Jesus called us to live.
We can help you develop leaders the kind of leaders you need in a way that is both relational and intentional… and ultimately effective in helping your church accomplish its mission.
If you knew you couldn’t fail, what would you do for the glory of God?
This entry is part of a week-long series on powerful coaching questions. Dennis Beatty, who was mentoring me at the time, originally asked this question of me when I was a university student: “If you knew you couldn’t fail, what would you do for the glory of God?”...
Who can help you?
This entry is part of a week-long series on powerful coaching questions. Let’s say you’re working with a leader who is wrestling with something or having difficulty putting together a plan. When you start asking them questions to help them brainstorm, like “What are...
If it were easy, they wouldn’t need you
Sometimes when I’m coaching people who are running up against very challenging circumstances or wrestling with very difficult problems, I need to remind myself of this: If it were easy, they wouldn’t need you. When people need coaching is when they’re struggling with...
3 Ways to Focus Mission
This blog entry is by guest blogger Steve Ogne, church planter coach and consultant with CRM. Steve and I worked together for a decade and collaborated on several projects together, including The Church Planter’s Toolkit. Steve’s most recent publication is...
3 Ways to Prioritize Mission
This blog entry is by guest blogger Steve Ogne, church planter coach and consultant with CRM. Steve and I worked together for a decade and collaborated on several projects together, including The Church Planter’s Toolkit. Steve’s most recent publication is...
3 Ways to Mobilize Mission
This blog entry is by guest blogger Steve Ogne, church planter coach and consultant with CRM. Steve and I worked together for a decade and collaborated on several projects together, including The Church Planter’s Toolkit. Steve’s most recent publication is...
3 Questions Every Pastor Must Ask
This blog entry is by guest blogger Steve Ogne, church planter coach and consultant with CRM. Steve and I worked together for a decade and collaborated on several projects together, including The Church Planter’s Toolkit. Steve’s most recent publication is...
What assets do you already have?
When we are faced with a challenging goal, one of the first places our minds go is to what we don’t have. I could do this if I had__________. A question I like to ask to counter or pre-empt that scarcity mindset is, “What assets do you already have?” When we get...
The value of strategic planning
You know how working in the church goes… if you don’t set aside time for the truly important things, you end up spending your time putting out fires and running from urgent issue to urgent issue. Come plan with us. We have time set aside on June 13-14 in Chicago. You...
How do you get from coaching to a missional movement?
Like peanut butter and chocolate, some things are just better together. Coaching and missional movements are like that. You understand the value of coaching. You want to cultivate a missional movement. But what happens when you put those two things together? That’s...
Faithful and focused – what’s your grade?
Just before my junior year of college as a chemistry major, I had a real spiritual awakening. As I began to get much more involved in ministry, I discovered that I had to do a resorting of my priorities that resulted in making a shift in my thinking. Instead of...
Saturating spirituality
One thing I’ve noticed in our weekly house church gatherings is that when people truly get connected spiritually and faith becomes real for them-- you can see it in their faces. There is a transformation you can see. They have become different, and it’s obvious that...