Coaching is a wonderful methodology for discipling adults. These books and CDs will help you apply coaching to the disciple making process of growing mature believers.
Eight Principles of Life-on-Life Leadership focuses on coaching discipleship group and small group leaders. Based on The Master Plan of Evangelism by Robert Coleman, this book wraps Coleman's eight enduring discipling principles with nearly 100 coaching tools and exercises to help leaders apply those principles to small group life.
The manual offers a step-by-step approach to coaching your group leaders. You start by identifying a coaching agenda with an assessment of how the group is doing in each of the eight key areas Coleman's identifies (which cover selecting, training and reproducing leaders). The leader picks an area to focus on, and the manual walks you through the process of creating a growth goal in that area. The coaching tools and exercises provide ready-made action steps, giving the coach something substantial to offer. If your coaches wonder what to do when they meet with a group leader, this book can help.
The Master Plan of Evangelism is a classic work (over 2 million copies sold) on how Jesus recruited, trained and unleashed his disciples to further his master plan for bringing in the Kingdom. Pair it with the new Life-on-Life Leadership coaching manual to use Coleman's principles for making disciples or coaching small group leaders in your church! Coleman identifies eight key principles Jesus used (Selection, Association, Consecration, Impartation, Demonstration, Delegation, Supervision and Reproduction) to build leaders who would carry on his work.
Want to bring the power of coaching to building discipleship and small group leaders? Leadership Coaching: Developing Discipling Leaders through Coaching is a DVD-based training workshop that integrates the basics of coaching into the disciplemaking process. The focus is on coaching leaders (hence the title) within a small group or discipleship group context. This coaching course covers the basics of how people grow, the fundamentals of coaching (like listening, asking and the GROW model), and a treatment of when to use a coaching, mentoring or pastoring approach.
The material can be done as a 2-day workshop or an 8-week class taking an evening a week. This Facilitator's Package includes a DVD, Facilitator Guide and Participant's Guide. Each trainee needs a Participant's Guide to complete the course.
This Participant's Guide is what each learner needs to go through the course, Leadership Coaching: Developing Discipling Leaders through Coaching. This 65 page workbook provides handouts, discussion questions, homework and coaching exercises for course participants. For an overview of the course and the presenter's materials, see the Leadership Coaching: Developing Discipling Leaders Through Coaching Facilitator's Package.
In this quick read, Randall Neighbour, a leader in the small group movement, tackles one of the biggest problems in small group coaching: building the kind of relationships with small group leaders that make them want to meet with you. This pocket guide provides excellent info on how to get in each others lives--including tips on time management, preventing burnout, investing in leaders for maximum impact, and the role of the coach in developing new small group leaders. Training small group coaches in these simple principles will make small group ministry a life-changing experience.
Faith Coaching Price: $14.95 By Chad hall, Bill Copper and Kathleen McElveen
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For too long, Christians have taken a delivery approach to spiritual formation: we memorize key verses and snappy concepts to spring on our un-churched neighbors; we provide fill-in-the-blank study courses for believers who want to grow in faith; we strive to tell, teach and transfer what we know.
But there's a better approach. By using a conversational, coaching approach to spiritual formation, you can open wide the doors that help others expand their commitment to Christ. Easy to learn and to apply, the concepts in Faith Coaching help you to leverage the power of coaching conversations to help people find and follow a genuine spiritual path.
Coaching the Discipling Leader
by John Purcell
For a while now I have been using the term “Discipling Leader,” and I firmly believe it describes an idea that could change the church world. The simplest statement of the concept is this: Christian leaders in any ministry role inside or outside the church should have as one of their goals to strive to intentionally help others grow as Disciples of Christ.
This is a concept that seems at first blush simple and obvious. In fact, in the business world it is becoming more accepted that leaders should continually invest significant time in developing other leaders. However, in reality the Discipling Leader idea is huge, complex, and daunting...
