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July 25, 2019

5 Ways To Equip Disciples as Gospel Ministers

Church leader? Your job is not to do the ministry for the church, but to equip the church to be gospel ministers. Habakkuk 2:14 speaks of a day when “The knowledge of the glory of the Lord will cover the…

by Nathan Cedarland 0

Church Coaching Foundations Leadership Pastoring

March 21, 2019

Looking at Commitment from a Fresh Angle

When we commit to faithfully and lovingly live life with a particular community of believers, we are submitting to Christ and refusing to be dominated by our own personal whims and desires. What does it mean to belong to…

by Jeff Vanderstelt 0

Coaching Discipleship Foundations Gospel Leadership Missionary Spiritual Growth

March 19, 2019

Power for Salvation

When people say they are saved, what do they mean? Think of this blog post as a vocabulary lesson. To become fluent in any language, you must develop your vocabulary. So let’s delve into the aspects of the gospel…

by Paul Whaley 0

Church Coaching Leadership Multiplication Pastoring Transitioning

March 5, 2019

Proactive Leadership Development for Multiplication

This is an excerpt from a live Question + Response session in our newly launched Missional Church Transition Starter. How do you get ahead of growth? How do you get new leaders ready in order to multiply your missional communities?…

Church Coaching Foundations Leadership Pastoring Resources

February 12, 2019

The Orientation of a Strong Team

Read part one, two and three of this series. Once you have understood yourself and your leaders, assessed your church's seasonal needs, and have hired the right complimentary team members, you are ready to establish the new team in strength. Beginnings matter.…

Church Coaching Gospel Leadership Missional Community Pastoring Transitioning

February 7, 2019

Moving Toward Mission without Division

This is an excerpt from a live Question + Response session in our newly launched Missional Church Transition Starter. How do you continue to move your church into the missional mindset when thirty percent of your church doesn’t want to…

Coaching Discipleship Foundations Gospel Leadership Pastoring

February 5, 2019

Finding the Right People

Read part one and two of this series. Once you have established the giftedness of the first leader or first few leaders, begin to assess what's missing. Do you have a strong teacher and shepherd, but no evangelist? Do…

Coaching Discipleship Foundations Leadership Pastoring

January 29, 2019

Building a Strong Team

Read part one of this series here. Leaders with a shared definition of team leadership are now prepared to build a strong team. Strong teams must account for the following. . . Self-awareness The strongest teams are not pre-existent. There…

Church Coaching Discipleship Foundations Leadership Pastoring

January 22, 2019

Redefining Team Leadership

Most established churches in North America speak of the value of team leadership, yet the outworking, from church to church, varies widely. In one church, “team leadership” is what Jim Collins has aptly termed “a-genius-with-a-thousand-helpers.” Here team leadership means…

by Rich McCaskill 0

Coaching Discipleship Gospel Leadership Mission Missional Community Missionary

October 11, 2018

The Jonah Factor

What is Jonah doing in the Bible? He is such a different prophet from the others! I believe God put it there because Jonah opens our eyes to a hidden truth. It is the truth that God calls us…

Church Planting Coaching Leadership Missional Community Pastoring

June 7, 2018

The Right Questions

This is a guest post by Brian Ottinger. Brian is a pastor and planter of a new missional community church in Charlotte, NC called Convergence Church. The Lord saved Brian in a radical way over seven years ago. God…

Coaching Leadership Pastoring Transitioning

May 24, 2018

From Vision to Reality

My name is Marshall Benbow, and I am the discipleship pastor at Grace Community Church in Greensboro, NC. We are a church of about 500 in a Bible Belt city of about 250,000 people. Over the years through the…

Coaching Discipleship Holy Spirit Leadership Pastoring Transitioning

April 12, 2018

Why Coaching is Essential to Movements

Getting the church to be what it was meant to be—a family on mission—doesn’t happen only through teaching and talking. People already have enough information; they need application. One of the first ministry opportunities I ever had was to lead…

Church Coaching Leadership Pastoring Transitioning

March 27, 2018

When You’re On a Larger Team

This is a guest post by Aaron Kampman. Aaron has been part of a Saturate coaching cohort for a little over a year. As a former NFL athlete, Aaron has a lot of experience with coaching and its benefits. From high school through…

Church Planting Coaching Discipleship Foundations Leadership Pastoring Transitioning

March 20, 2018

Coaching Like a Ninja

This is a guest post by Brian Mease. Brian is a husband and father of 3, has been in Pastoral Ministry for over 15 years. As a graduate of Liberty University and a seminary dropout, his truest ministry passion is…

Coaching Saturate Podcast

March 14, 2018

Episode 037: The Power of Missional Community Leader Coaching

In this episode of the Saturate Podcast, Brad Watson and David Achata talk about the the powerful tool of coaching for leaders and churches. Then, they dive into a real scenario as David coaches Brad as he would any leader.…

Coaching Discipleship Foundations Leadership Pastoring Transitioning Uncategorized

March 13, 2018

You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know

This is a guest post by Johnathan Schroeder. Johnathan is husband to Jill and the father of Judah (7) and Jessah (2). In 1995 God began a work in Johnathan, God showed Johnathan his useless pursuit of acceptance and…

Church Coaching Leadership Pastoring Transitioning

March 6, 2018

Revealing a Better Teacher

This is a guest post by Nick Crawford. Nick serves as the Family & Groups Pastor at Fondren Church in Jackson, Mississippi, where he works to see disciples made, matured, and multiplied across all generations. Nick came to Jackson from…

Coaching Discipleship Gospel Leadership Pastoring

February 20, 2018

The Call and the Commission

When Jesus's commissions are read together, we get a more accurate picture of a King who cares for the broken. If our strategies don’t include the care and healing of the whole man, we’ve missed the real commission. Discipleship is about more than beliefs and practices, it’s the process of…

by David Achata 1

Coaching Discipleship Leadership Pastoring

December 26, 2017

The Call & The Confusion

This is why the answer to helping others reach maturity isn’t more training, but more shared life. It’s in the sharing that we offer up our lives as Jesus offered up His life for us. What if the key…

Church Coaching Discipleship Missional Community

October 17, 2017

How to be Coached

Coaching is essential for a sustained missional community movement. If you are committed to decentralized discipleship, you must make ongoing investments in leaders. We call this coaching—a process of pulling out what the Holy Spirit has already put inside…

by Amy Lathrop 0

Coaching Discipleship Leadership

August 8, 2017

Glory Passers

Guest post by Ryan Latour for Saturate A few Saturdays ago I was standing on the sidelines, coaching our U10 soccer team. Standing is probably the wrong word; I was moving up and down the sidelines encouraging and instructing our…

by Amy Lathrop 0

Coaching Discipleship Leadership Pastoring

July 27, 2017

Learning to Coach

Guest post by Phil Whittall for Saturate I can’t quite remember when I first came across coaching as a leadership concept, but it has been one of those ideas that has slowly invaded my thinking. Last year I read…

Church Coaching Pastoring Saturate Podcast

May 31, 2017

Episode 007: Shared Learning and Coaching Cohorts

On this week's episode of The Saturate Podcast, David Achata and Brad Watson talk with Dan Bovenmyer and Ryan Latour about how Saturate coaching cohorts have impacted their lives, teams, and churches.

Coaching Discipleship Holy Spirit Leadership Missional Community Saturate Podcast Spiritual Growth

May 24, 2017

Episode 006: Why is Coaching important for Missional Communities

On this week's episode of The Saturate Podcast, David Achata joins Brad to discuss the role of coaching: what it is, what it is not, and its role in creating healthy and effective missional communities.

by Jeff Vanderstelt 1

Church Church Planting Coaching Discipleship Gospel Holy Spirit Leadership Missional Community Pastoring Prayer Resources Transitioning

April 27, 2017

How Do We Transition from “Sunday” to “Everyday”

Part 6 in the 6 Questions We Answer Again and Again series. If you fail to pray, you will have missed the most important element of transitioning from Sunday to everyday. When we first began training leaders to start and…

Church Coaching Community Discipleship Everyday Rhythms Family Gospel Identity Leadership Life Issues Mission Missional Community Missionary Pastoring Resources Servant

January 11, 2017

What’s Next?

Filled with the excitement of making a covenant, they meet with their pastor who is also “coaching” them through this process. Their first question is, “What do we do now?” Imagine a newly launched missional community lead by a…

Church Coaching Discipleship Foundations Leadership Pastoring Resources

December 27, 2016

How Do You Train MC Leaders?

(You can read the next part in the How Do We Do It series here.) There are stories out of Dallas, Texas, of an infamous Young Life director who operated like a mafia boss. He was never in the…

Church Church Planting Coaching Holy Spirit Leadership Missional Community Multiplication Pastoring Transitioning

December 14, 2016

How is a Church-On-Mission Organized?

(You can read the next part in the How Do We Do It series here.) Life is the program, and everyday is the mission. At one of the recent Saturate Every Day events, Jeff Vanderstelt and I were answering…

Church Coaching Discipleship Leadership Missional Community Multiplication Spiritual Growth Transitioning

November 23, 2016

Transitioning Teams of Missionaries to Missional Communities

Enjoy this final post in Todd's Engstrom's short series on how to turn a "small group" culture into a "missional community" culture with the same group of people. In the last post, we looked at the move from small groups…

Church Coaching Discipleship Leadership Missional Community Spiritual Growth

November 16, 2016

Transitioning Small Groups to Teams of Missionaries

Post three in a short series on how to turn a "small group" culture into a "missional community" culture with the same group of people by Todd Engstrom. Read part four here. In the last post, we looked at…

Arts & Culture Church Coaching Community Faith and Work Gospel Identity Leadership Mission Missional Community

November 11, 2016

An American in Europe

We are all (regardless of nationality) prone to wander and seek our own security, approval, comfort, and control until we find our faith and trust in Jesus. Twelve years ago, I moved away from Europe, and yet it remains my…

Coaching Discipleship Leadership Missional Community Spiritual Growth Transitioning

November 9, 2016

Transitioning Community Groups to Small Groups

Post two in a short series on how to turn a "small group" culture into a "missional community" culture with the same group of people by Todd Engstrom. Read part three here. In the last post, we looked at…

Bible & Theology Church Coaching Leadership Missional Community Spiritual Growth Transitioning Uncategorized

November 2, 2016

Turning Group Culture With The Same Group of People

Post one in a short series by Todd Engstrom on how to turn a "small group" culture into a "missional community" culture with the same group of people. Read part two here. Community Group: The primary need of people in…