The Power of Coaching

This past week I had the wonderful privilege and opportunity again to invest in the lives of new church planters and potential coaches at the Louisiana District A/G Church Planters Boot Camp. What an awesome and exciting week it was.

During the coaches training as I was modeling coaching by coaching one of the students we addressed his agenda of church growth and what it would take for him to break the next growth barrier in his church. During those few moments he came to the following assessment. In order for his church to continue to grow he needed to address four issues. He was going to have to adjust his staffing, address facility deficiencies, expand his infrastructure and personally he was going to have to change how he worked and what he gave his time to. Before the role play was over he had created a plan to address one of these four key issues and was well his way to moving forward to focusing in on the other issues.

During this exercise I celebrated with him over his recognition of key inhibitors to growth. He knew the keys. He knew that building and empowering a strong team, expanding and upgrading facilities, making appropriate organizational structural changes and growing and changing as the leader are all vital components to sustaining organizational growth. He had found the keys!

In those moments I was again reminded of the power of coaching and was reminded how beneficial it is to have someone invest in our lives and help us reach our goals. Andy Stanley has said that we will go farther, faster with a coach in our lives. It is so true. Now I am sure my new ministry friend eventually would have figured out what needed to be done and would have addressed those issues. But having the chance to experience a coaching moment provided for him the opportunity and impetus to accelerate towards accomplishing those goals. That is the power of coaching.

I’m grateful for the coaches that have blessed my life and value every opportunity given to me to invest in others through my coaching ministry. I am committed to building the kingdom and equipping the kingdom builders.

His servant and yours
Roger

Welcome to the MN Church Planting Brain Trust

We are all aware of the unique difficulties that we all face as church planters. How do we break the 50, 100, 150, 200 person barriers? How can we inspire our people to invest more in the ministry of our church? How do we find those key people who will help us turn our church into a thriving healthy community that will make an impact in our respective areas? All of our successes and setbacks create an incredible journey that helps us realize God’s faithfulness to us and our need of Him. Our passion in the Church Planting Department is to help all of you make that journey with as much support and resource as we can provide. So, here is one of the tools that we are going to place at your disposal. This is the pilot program for a web-based resource for all of our church planters to learn, teach, share, and thrive. Each of you have unique experiences that can help the rest of us grow. We invite you to make comments and post questions, exchange ideas and create community.

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Here is where all your God inspired dreams can come true.