12 Great Quotes on Pastoral Coaching
Leading businesses have known for years that one of the keys to growth is a retained and trained leadership team. Fortune 500 companies invest heavily in their young leaders, knowing that the investment will reap rewards over and over again, not only in the business, but in the employee.
Coaching is a key component of their program and success.
Coaching was also a key component of Jesus’ “program” and success when he ministered on earth. Though he talked to thousands, he walked with just twelve. Jesus multiplied ministry to the thousands by developing individual leaders.
Coaching was Jesus’ key component in reaching nations.
With this in mind, this month we offer you twelve quotes on pastoral coaching – one for each of the apostles whom Jesus coached.
May these quotes encourage you to find a coach – a wise guide – to share your journey.
Pastor, it is plain and simple: you and I need to be pastored. Paul David Tripp
Elders are generally older, more experienced, stronger memory members of the group to whom the younger look for identity. However, This role is conspicuously absent from modern American culture, at least in formal social structures nevertheless, … we long for mentors. We seem to do better when they are in our lives. And when we don’t find positive mentors, by default, negative ones usually find us! Lynn Anderson
The most effective learning of all, more than all other forms combined, is going through hardship with support, and evaluation. The Center for Creative Leadership
Of all vocations, surely the gospel ministry is the one whose paradigm is most radically formed by the dynamics of godly mentorship. Stephen Baldwin
Jesus and his disciples spent most of three years on the road, walking. And as they walked and talked, Jesus built his life into these men, equipping them for the ministry that lay ahead. Lynn Anderson
God has written the mentor concept into human nature and that is why the concept is written into the Bible. Lynn Anderson
When we are fortunate enough to be surrounded by healthy, functional, caring people, we tend to become like them. Lynn Anderson
As with Jesus’ model, we must engage in a self-replicating system of mentoring. Stephen Baldwin
One of the scandals of hordes of churches is that no one is pastoring their pastor. No one is helping him see what he is not seeing. No one is helping him examine his thoughts, desires words, and behaviors. No one is regularly calling him to confession. No one is delineating where repentance is appropriate. No one is reaching into his discouragement with the truths of the presence, promises and provision of his Savior. No one is confronting his idolatry and pride. No one is alerting him to places of temptation and danger in his life. Paul David Tripp
In a monthly meeting of pastors I lead . . . one man said, “apart from you guys, I have never had a mentor in the ministry.” Sadly, my friend’s experience is not unique. Stephen Baldwin
We teach what we know, but reproduce who we are. John Maxwell
He who walks with the wise grows wise. Proverbs 13.20
Coach. Life. Wisdom. Journey. Grow. Today. Tomorrow. Forever.
Journey Pastoral Coaching provides pastoral coaching to Millennial ministers.
Saddled with large student debt, just beginning to set up homes and start families, and serving in low paying first and second positions, Millennials are those who most desire but can least afford to pay for pastoral coaching.
So we offer them pastoral coaching at no financial cost: members don’t pay for coaching; they earn it.
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