In a fast-moving world of competing challenges and opportunities, isolated leaders will inevitably have their energy, talents and skills blunted, and at worst, crushed by the pressure. Sadly many leaders feel isolated and stuck in unhealthy and unsustainable patterns of work-life, home-life and devotional life. Gospel Coaching offers leaders the tool of a coach to come alongside you, to offer an outside eye to your life and situation, and uniquely drawing upon extensive ministry experience and an insightful gospel framework, will help you navigate your leadership into a healthier and sustainable trajectory.
What is leadership gospel coaching?
Gospel Coaching was a method of coaching devised by Dr Tom Wood of Church Multiplication Ministries, an organisation that trains coaches and delivers coaching to leaders across the world. The Gospel Coaching method seeks to help leaders identify areas of vulnerability or untended wounds that may be inhibiting or undermining one’s leadership effectiveness. This is not however, simply coaching in better techniques, the Gospel Coaching method seeks to identify hidden motivations and unchallenged idols that are at the heart of the resistance to becoming the people of God that we are called to be. Gospel Coaching seeks to apply the gospel with warmth, encouragement and precision to each leader’s unique situation, personality and circumstance helping them to develop a thriving and sustainable leadership dynamic over themselves, amongst their family and within their ministry.
How does it work?
A leader will meet with a coach for 60 minute sessions approximately every three weeks, either in person or online. Through conversation the coach will work with that individual reflecting on the progress or development from previous sessions, examining areas that the leader would like to talk through, and setting goals for the next session.
Leaders will typically commit to 15 sessions with a coach and will have the opportunity to renew that relationship should they wish.
What can I expect from a session?
You can expect a coach who will be seeking to build a warm and supportive relationship with you. They will be looking to understand your ministry and circumstances and appreciate the details and nuances of the uniqueness of your situation. The coach will want to hear about the challenges and opportunities that you have faced since the last session and to reflect on the progress and learning from the goals or skills discussed previously. They will be particularly interested to hear how you felt about the situations you have encountered and your reaction to events, and the coach will be led to focus on the areas you would particularly like to work through. The coach will predominantly use helpful and precise questions to support you in thinking more deeply and incisively about yourself and your interactions with others and will use a gospel framework to help you see everything through the lens of the cross and resurrection of Jesus. The final part of the session will see the coach pull together the key ideas from the conversation and help you establish concrete goals and a strategy in which to apply them. The session will conclude with prayer and an arrangement for a date and time for the next session.
Who are Church Multiplication Ministries?
Follow the link to their website to discover the history of the coaching and their details of their work across the world: https://www.cmmnet.org/
What’s next?
Click the link to sign-up for your Gospel Coach.
Matt has been co-pastor of City Church Manchester for the last 8 years since planting the church in 2014. He has extensive leadership experience in a number of different settings including being a University Staff Worker for UCCF, a leader for innovation in Secondary Education, and involved in Emerging Leaders, a charity delivering leadership training in central Africa. Matt is a trained Gospel Coach and part of the CMM steering group for the UK. Matt specialises in leadership through change, the building of healthy team cultures, organisational dynamics and leaders working through anxiety.
Ralph has been co-pastor of City Church Manchester for the last 8 years since planting the church in 2014. He is an experienced Gospel Coach and has successfully worked with the leaders from a variety of different denominations. He has a proven leadership track record spanning from being a university law lecturer to training church leaders in Uganda. Ralph sits on a number of national committees offering leadership and insight on a variety of current ministry areas. Ralph specialises in establishing and implementing vision, leading through theological differences, organisational change and network leadership.
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