{"id":1327,"date":"2015-01-25T02:16:33","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T02:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theawakenministry.com\/?p=1327"},"modified":"2015-02-01T12:11:13","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T19:11:13","slug":"what-is-awaken-ministry-coaching-for-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theawakenministry.com\/?p=1327","title":{"rendered":"What is Awaken Ministry? Coaching for Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"504647_63488529\"<\/a>Behind every successful athlete lies a coach who has helped that person become a success.\u00a0 Great athletes aren\u2019t born great, they are coached to be great. \u00a0 Michael Phelps didn\u2019t win 18 gold medals on his own.\u00a0 By his own admission he credits his success to the work his coach put in to help him become a great athlete.\u00a0 Bob Bowman coached Michael Phelps, and helped him reach his potential as an athlete.<\/p>\n

The same is true about leadership.\u00a0 Great leaders aren\u2019t born great, they too are coached to be great.\u00a0 Yet most of the leaders in the church have no one coaching them.\u00a0 There is no one helping them reach their potential as a leader.\u00a0 There is no one in their corner pursuing them to continue to grow in their own faith.\u00a0 No one training them in how they are leading others.\u00a0 No one investing in them for their family\u2019s sake.<\/p>\n

The number one reason leaders give for not having a coach is that they are \u201ctoo busy.\u201d\u00a0 This is striking given the fact that Jesus himself wasn\u2019t too busy for coaching.\u00a0 He pulled away during some of the busiest times of his ministry in order to be coached by God the Father (Mark 1:35, Matt. 14:13, 26.36, Lk. 5:16, Jn. 6:15).\u00a0 But instead of seeking coaching, many leaders seek out a quick fix.\u00a0 They seek answers to the problems they face in their ministry, efficiency to maximize the use of their time, and power for greater impact in their community.\u00a0 Yet, Jesus didn\u2019t look for a quick fix to his ministry.\u00a0 He was determined to submit himself to the Father, his coach, so that when it came time to deal with the biggest problem he faced in ministry – our sin – he was able to say with conviction, \u201cLord, not my will be done, but your will be done\u201d (Matt. 26:39).<\/p>\n

When pastors and spiritual leaders lead without a spiritual coach, they risk becoming at best exhausted, worn out, and discouraged, and at worst harmful to those under their leadership.\u00a0 In the animal kingdom, predators separate their prey from the pack in order to eat.\u00a0 For example lions separate one gazelle from the pack.\u00a0 They chase the prey until it\u2019s exhausted and worn out.\u00a0 Then, the lions are able to have a nice snack at the gazelle\u2019s expense.\u00a0 Pastors and spiritual leaders need help developing a rhythm of ministry that doesn\u2019t come at the leader\u2019s expense.\u00a0 Peter tells us that we have an enemy who is on the prowl desiring to devour us.\u00a0 Peter\u2019s encouragement in 1Peter 5:8 is to \u201cbe alert and of sober mind.\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s hard to be alert on of sober mind on your own given the pressures ministry leaders face day in and day out.\u00a0 The best way to take Peter\u2019s encouragement to heart for the long haul is to find a coach who will invest in you, your leadership, and your marriage.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s where Awaken Ministry comes in.\u00a0 We give life to leaders by investing in you, your leadership, and your marriage.\u00a0 We coach pastors and ministry leaders in order to continue to connect you to God\u2019s love so that you can have the right fuel to carry out your ministry in Jesus\u2019 name.\u00a0 You don\u2019t have to wait until you face a crisis in your ministry or marriage to get coaching.\u00a0 Be proactive.\u00a0 Seek out a coach now who will invest in you by encouraging you in your spiritual formation, your leadership, and your marriage so that you can thrive in ministry for which God has called you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Behind every successful athlete lies a coach who has helped that person become a success.\u00a0 Great athletes aren\u2019t born great, they are coached to be great. \u00a0 Michael Phelps didn\u2019t win 18 gold medals on his own.\u00a0 By his own admission he credits his success to the work his coach put in to help him […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theawakenministry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/504647_634885291.jpg?fit=2048%2C1536&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theawakenministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theawakenministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theawakenministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theawakenministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theawakenministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1327"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.theawakenministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1553,"href":"https:\/\/www.theawakenministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions\/1553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theawakenministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theawakenministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theawakenministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theawakenministry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}