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Leadership Challenges in Church Planting
Can you be led? This will determine how far you can develop as a leader.
o Developing a Great Coaching Relationship: your relationship with your coach - resources, evaluations, topics…
- Get together regularly with other church planters who are at your stage or who are just beyond you to share prayer requests, best practices, challenges, etc.
- Get together with your coach at least once a month. Use the Monthly Church Planters Report to talk about issues.
o In year one: use the Growth-Marks document with your coach.
- Respect your coach, i.e. become TEACHABLE
THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT FACTOR that will determine whether a church planter will get even better is whether they are TEACHABLE.
o The lesser-performing church planters are NOT very teachable. They often think they know better than their coach.
o The highest-performing church planters ARE very teachable. They seek out advice and think deeply about it, even when they initially disagree with this counsel. The High-performing church planter isn’t necessarily the most highly-gifted – however, they are often the MOST Teachable:
• Always asking questions
• Getting feedback from many people (even their critics)
• Developing mentoring relationships with peers and with more experienced leaders.
• Develop their ministry gifts: particularly communication, leadership, gathering and building.
• Identify, invest in, and empower other leaders, both staff and lay. They become a “leader of leaders.”
• Find new ways to organize and structure ministry of the church for greatest effectiveness and fruitfulness.
Leading through Change and the various stages of leadership needed as the church grows
- how to handle disappointments as a pastor and team
- leading in a plant up to 75 attendance, from 75 to 150 attendance, from 150 to 400 attendance, leading beyond…
o Lyle Schaller, The Very Large Church
o Mark Batterson, Chase the Lion, a church planter in Washington DC on courage and risk-taking
o Influencer: The Power to Change Anything, great book by Patterson, Grenny, Maxfield, McMillan, and Switzler. 6 core aspects of influence.
o Integrity: the courage to meet the demands of reality by Henry Cloud. Some have called this the best book on leadership they’ve read.
o Leading with Confidence by Bobb Biehl (also avail in Spanish). Originally published as “30 Days to Confident Leadership” this book is very helpful in raising the right questions for a variety of leadership challenges. Available at http://www.aylen.com/ Also great resources, egs. “Masterplanning Arrow” and “Building Your First Building.” For more info on Bobb Biehl’s organization, go to http://www.masterplanninggroup.com/
Category:Interconnectedness - Coaching & Counsel