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Developing the Coach Role

Sean Cronin — Sat, 05 Jun 2021 09:00:00 +0000

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Developing the Coach Role

By New Churches Team

When you are building a leadership pipeline in your church, it is common to not have enough coaches. The coach position is a leader who leads other leaders.

Span of Care

When you look at the proper structure and span of care, frequently there is a structural issue because not enough coaches are in place. There is no person between the director of ministry and the leader. The result is that the director of ministry has far too many direct reports. It is impossible for one person to be directly responsible for that many people.

But you can’t raise someone up properly to the coach level unless you have defined the role and what the competencies of the role are. The role definition and competencies create clarity for both the ministry leader and the coach.

Finding Coaches

If you already have existing coaches, they should be looking for new coaches all the time. They should be the ones recruiting and developing new coaches. But, if you don’t have coaches currently in place, take your top leaders through the competencies of the role and create that coach role. If someone is 80% ready, you can develop them into that role.

Good Judgment

If you are desperate for a coach, but don’t have someone who is 80% ready, look at them in these four areas.

Do they have good judgment when it comes to your vision and values?
Do they have good judgment during a crisis?
Do they have good judgment when it comes to people?
Do they have good judgment in how they spend their time as a volunteer?

Adapted from the New Churches Q&A Podcast Episode 536: Raising Up Coaches. Click here to listen to more to church planting, multisite, and multiplication tips.

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Being Marked By Love with Tim Stevens

Patrick Bradley — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 10:00:35 +0000

Welcome to this week’s unSeminary podcast! We have the pleasure of hearing from a familiar voice today. Tim Stevens is no stranger to the podcast, and he’s talked with us before about his work with Vanderbloemen Search Group.

Today, though, the topic is different. While Tim works with VSG to help churches find staff, he’s here to today to talk about something a bit more personal. His new book, Marked by Love: A Dare to Walk Away from Judgement and Hypocrisy, explore topics and feelings that we all struggle with but fail to discuss or address. Tune in while we hear how Tim defines what it means to be marked by love.

Why he wrote the book//About six to ten years ago, in the throes of a controversial political season, Tim was heavily engaged in social media, and he grew frustrated with seeing Christians acting judgmental and hypocritical online…and then it dawned on him that he might need to reflect on his own internal struggle with judgement and hypocrisy. Tim felt it was important to examine the core of Jesus’ message, and the results of his personal study are in this new book.
Being marked by the love of Jesus in spite of differences// Tim noticed that his previous heavy diet of political commentary and cable news stirred up a side of him that was unloving, judgmental, and very nervous about what was going to happen with the world. While Tim found the positive impact it made on his life when he reduced his consumption of news media, for other people it might be another situation they need to remove themselves from.
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Why Andy Stanley is Right About Reaching Post-Christians

Patrick Bradley — Sat, 13 Oct 2018 09:00:44 +0000

by Carey Nieuwhof: If you want to reach post-Christian, post-modern people—in other words, the next generation—how do you do it, effectively?

Although you might not know it if you just perused social media, the majority of churches are plateaued or dying. And even among growing churches, not all growth is coming from people with no church background.

Some—not all, but some—growing churches are just consolidating the Christians who are still around and giving them a new place to gather.

If you really analyzed what percentage of churches are truly attracting post-modern, post-Christian people, you might be a little surprised at how low that number is.

Three typical responses to this problem include taking pot-shots at growing churches, criticizing church leaders and lamenting about how bad current culture is. But none of these responses is in any way productive.

So, instead, what if we focused on the real issue, namely, figuring out what it takes to reach people who don’t know Jesus?

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