by Scott Thomas, President of Acts 29
I often say that every church leader needs a coach. Below are thirty reasons the participants of Gospel Coach Training have shared:
- Coaching helps to remind a leader of the Gospel
- Coaching exposes a leader’s blind spots
- All leaders are capable of succumbing to sin’s deception
- Leaders are models for faithful obedience
- Coaching is preventative maintenance for a leader
- The stakes for a church leader are high
- Coaching models biblical community
- Coaching provides a prayer partner for the leader
- Leaders can be prideful
- Leaders are often lonely
- Coaching is a practical means for a leader to pay careful attention to self
- Coaching brings encouragement to the leader
- Coaching can protect the flock from a leader’s mistakes and bad decisions
- Coaching improves a leader’s perspective and objectivity
- Coaching facilitates the leader’s growth and equipping
- Coaching sharpens a leader’s calling
- Leaders lead where they have walked themselves
- Coaching is a means for intentional accountability and submission
- Coaching helps a leader identify and fight arrogance
- Ministry is a difficult and complicated task
- Leaders in a coaching relationship model discipleship
- Shepherds need shepherded
- Coaching sharpens a leader’s skills and abilities
- Coaching provides a safe sounding board
- Coaching is fun
- Coaching encourages friendship
- Coaching provides affirmation for a leader’s decisions
- Coaching enables personal sanctification
- Coaching protects family and marital health
- Coaching is a means to obtain gospel reflections from a fellow leader
