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Insourcing: Bringing Discipleship Back to the Local Church is unavailable, but you can change that!

Too many of today’s pastors and leaders mistakenly think that thriving programs, lively worship services, and relevant preaching are adequate for developing people into the spiritual dynamos God desires. In many churches, the primary objective of the church—personally discipling individuals into mature followers of Jesus—has been “outsourced” to large-scale programs. But are people truly being...

continue to offer only directives, you will fail as a leader. He then wrote the word coach in the top left box. “Coaching,” he explained, “is when you allow your employee to watch you perform his task before he’s asked to do it. It’s allowing him to ask you questions and then asking him questions to make certain he understands what he’s being asked to do. It’s giving him feedback as you watch him begin to perform his new job.” Figure 1 In the top right box, he wrote the word support, and he described