Cross-Coaching: A Post, A Beam, A Nail.
NOTE: This article is a part of Journey's Summer Sabbatical Series, a follower-favorite article from the past that we're posting again. This is a particularly interesting read in that it explains Journey's unique approach to pastoral coaching: we model our method after the Cross of Jesus. Intrigued? Read on! “You will never maximize your potential in any area without coaching. It is impossible. You may be good. You may even be better than everyone else....
Guest Blog: Why You Need a Peer-Mentoring Relationship
Editor’s Note: The author of this article, Josh Havens, is co-founder and co-director of the online discipleship ministry, Daily Growth Discipleship, a ministry whose mission is perfectly described in its name. He serves at Global University, a worldwide distance learning pioneer, integrates education and service in 150 countries. He is also a member of Journey Pastoral Coaching and represents Journey to ministers and ministries across the country. I never thought I needed a deep and intimate relationship with other...
Cast Away In the Ministry?
NOTE: This is an edited version of an article first published March 15, 2019. It's a part of our Summer Sabbatical Series at journeypastoralcoaching.com. One of my favorite movies is the 2001 classic, “Cast Away,” starring Tom Hanks. Who wouldn’t love a movie where the best friend (or pastoral coach) is a volleyball named Wilson, right? Hanks plays Chuck Noland, a high-energy, driven, FedEx systems engineer who loves traveling the FedEx world and fixing it...
The Failure to Thrive Syndrome
In their book, “Among Friends,” James Hinkle and Tim Woodroof cite a 1945 study conducted by social scientist, René Spitz. The study tracked the development of 88 healthy children (1 to 2 ½ years of age) who had recently been separated from their families and institutionalized in a group home. When these children entered a group home, each child was in good physical health as compared to other children of the same age. However, in a...
Sabbatical
TAKE MY OWN MEDICINE? NOTE: As we share below, Journey is on summer sabbatical until August 1. We will return at that time with fresh content. Until then, we will post a series of "Best Of" articles from our six plus years of writing. This post on sabbaticals will remain in this place throughout the summer. To access our "Best Of" posts, on the Journey home page, hover over "The Journey Blog," and then click...
The End of the Church World – The 2021 Update
INTRODUCTION Two years ago, and again last year, Journey Pastoral Coaching published an article entitled, “The World Will End in 23 Years (The Church World).” In that piece, I cited statistics on the graying of the American pulpit. How gray are we going? This gray: “By the time your son or daughter, born today, graduates from college, the average ordained AG minister will be at retirement age (67.5 years).” The World Will End in 23 Years (March...
Not a Tame Lion
In the Easter season we look to, meditate on, and celebrate three of the four most important days in history: the death of Jesus Christ, the day of silence between the Cross and the Resurrection, and the Resurrection. The fourth is the birth of Jesus Christ, God incarnate, come to redeem and restore. During the season of Good Friday and Resurrection Day we give even greater focus than normal to the One who is ever...
This is The Way
In the TV series, The Mandalorian, the title character and those of his kind are readily identified not only by their distinctive armor of protection but by the way they live. Some would identify their way of life as a set of rules or a code. But these words are insufficient in that they define the Mandalorian by forces external to him or her. The Way of the Mandalore is much more. The Way is...
U40 Ministers: How Will the Church Best & Least Shine in 2021?
This article is the second in a two-part series focused on the ministry of the church in 2020 and 2021, as seen through the eyes of U40 ministers (ministers under 40 years of age). In our previous article, we reported the result of a survey in which we asked U40s to tell us how the church least and best shined in 2020. You can click here to read the results of that survey. In this article, we...© [2015] — Journey Pastoral Coaching