Transformational Coaching is a key to making more and better disciples in our nations. – Joseph Umidi

“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations” (Matthew 28:19)

What is your POTENTIAL? How do you discover, release and maximize that?
What is your LIFE purpose?
What is your DESTINY?
What role will a COACH play in guiding you to fulfill your potential, life purpose, and destiny?

These are all powerful questions. Finding the answers and pursuing your dream lead to the abundant life that Jesus promises – a life of PASSION. Very few people are actually living the dream that God has placed within them.

I like what Bill Gates (Microsoft) says, “If we don’t act on a good idea within 24 hours, we are less than 50% likely to ever act on it. If we haven’t acted on it inside of days, then we are less than 2% likely to ever act on it.”

This week’s series of devotionals are all related to UNCOMMON DESTINY Coaching. Through my extensive journaling over the past 7 years, God has coached me into my destiny. Now I’d like to share some of my experiences and methods with you in my webinar titled “UNCOMMON Journaling for Breakthroughs” on May 20-22. To be richly blessed, learn more, and register, CLICK HERE.

Will you allow TEAM DESTINY to coach you to live your dream?

In the May 2008 Newsletter for Lifeforming Leadership Coaching, Joseph Umidi states:

1) “Jesus defines “success” as the bottom line of whether or not we are making disciples.

2) Discipleship is almost entirely relational in a combination of small group and one on one culture, outside of church meetings, and especially through the influence of healthy conversations from healthy families around the table.

3) Discipleship assumes we are “going into all of our world” (most of what we do outside of church meetings) to make #1 and #2 above happen. That makes “sending capacity” a better benchmark of success than “seating capacity”.

4) The end game of discipleship is for nations to be discipled (Rev. 21:24-27) so the “burning bush vision” for the church is to equip members to make disciples in the places that shape a nations; at work in the major spheres of vocations that shape the culture.

5) We have made discipleship more of a “teaching commission” at the expense of a “training omission” (v.20). Action steps that integrate and align our daily behaviors with kingdom values and Jesus commands is more hitting the mark than “fill-in-the-blank” lectures or sermon series. (Note: It only takes 45 minutes to read the teaching content of Jesus words given us in scripture.)”

To read the rest of Joseph’s excellent article, visit today’s Link of the Day

Prayer Power
Heavenly Father, we praise You as the Master Coach with the Master plan. Everything happens for a reason. Thank Your for everyone You lead to read this message. Bless them to find appropriate coaching and training to unlock their destinies. In Jesus’ name, we pray and give You glory. Amen and hallelujah!

Link of the Day
Lifeforming Leadership Coaching May 2008 Newsletter [see below]

Blessings to seek and find an UNCOMMON coach to guide you to your destiny!

UNCOMMON Journaling for Breakthroughs
Through my extensive journaling over the past 7 years, God has coached me into my destiny. Now I’d like to share some of my experiences and methods with you in my webinar titled “UNCOMMON Journaling for Breakthroughs” on May 20-22. The purpose is to help coach you to journal in UNCOMMON ways to experience breakthroughs in your life.
 
To be richly blessed, learn more, and register, CLICK HERE.
 
May 20, 2008, 7-8 pm EDT
May 21, 2008, 1-2 pm EDT
May 22, 2008, 7-8 am EDT
May 22, 2008, 4-5 pm EDT

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From: Lifeforming Leadership Coaching
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 6:36 PM
To: Randy Peck
Subject: Lifeforming Leadership Coaching Newsletter – May 2008

Lifeforming Leadership Coaching May 2008 Newsletter
ASSEMBLING THE WHOLE STORY
 
THE GREAT OMISSION

Matthew 28: 18-20

The following thoughts would better be served in a blog because they require the need for a “paradigm funeral” of old school thinking and a renewed mind of defining success the Jesus way.  Here is a list of those thoughts to get some conversations going in your part of the world:

1. Jesus defines “success” as the bottom line of whether or not we are making disciples.

2. Discipleship is almost entirely relational in a combination of small group and one on one culture, outside of church meetings, and especially through the influence of healthy conversations from healthy families around the table.

3. Discipleship assumes we are “going into all of our world” (most of what we do outside of church meetings) to make #1 and #2 above happen.  That makes “sending capacity” a better benchmark of success than “seating capacity”.

4. The end game of discipleship is for nations to be discipled (Rev. 21:24-27) so the “burning bush vision” for the church is to equip members to make disciples in the places that shape a nations; at work in the major spheres of vocations that shape the culture.

5. We have made discipleship more of a “teaching commission” at the expense of a “training omission” (v.20).  Action steps that integrate and align our daily behaviors with kingdom values and Jesus commands is more hitting the mark than “fill-in-the-blank” lectures or sermon series. (Note: It only takes 45 minutes to read the teaching content of Jesus words given us in scripture.)

Recently Bill Hybels of Willow Creek authentically announced that his “seeker-friendly”congregation did not produce transformational change in the lives of its members; meaning they were not discipled.  George Barna’s extensive research in the discipleship deficit in the American church brought him to the unfortunate position of an anti “organized church” position.  I believe that Lifeforming can offer a way forward in this debate.

I am giving my life to the core value that Transformational Coaching is a key to making more and better disciples in our nations.  Here is why:

1. It consistently targets the core factor of making a disciple; hearing God’s voice. Every religion makes disciples but a disciple of Jesus is led by Him personally (not just His principles) and has the “unfair advantage” of knowing that voice (John 10:3) in the unique design that we are created to respond to that voice (Psalm 139: 13-16).

2. It consistently maximizes the core delivery to make a disciple; a non-judgmental relationship with someone who seeks to 100% believe in you as the Father does, 100% work with you in what the Spirit is prioritizing, and 100% enable you to take ownership for your own development and progress.

3. It consistently models the authentic spiritual authority of stewarding transformation to another by first having been transformed ourselves in the same manner (2 Timothy 2:2).  UNTIL SPIRITUAL FATHERS AND MOTHERS ARE DISCIPLED THEMSELVES TRANSFORMATIONALY THEY ARE DEPENDENT ON PROGRAMS AND METHODS THAT ARE INFORMATION TRANSACTIONS MORE THAN LIFE TRANSFER.

4. It consistently produces the kind of community that is compelling and engaging of the spiritual hunger in our cultures that are seeking life-giving spiritual relationships when they turn to Christ. Lifeforming’s Transformational coaches know how to catalyze authentic relationships in organizations that shift those cultures to environments that accelerate personal development in the context of the organization’s mission.

Lifeforming Leadership Coaching has a key role to play in restoring the Great Commission in Matthew 28.  We are about the Father’s business of making disciples the Jesus way.  This is not an option; it is a mandate.

Dr. Joseph Umidi
President, Lifeforming Leadership Coaching

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