Who coaches the Lead Pastor?

by Mario Vega, http://www.elim.org.sv/ Cell ministry allows a pastor to both evangelize non-Christians as well as care for the congregation. Leaders care for the members of their cell; Coaches minister to the leaders; Zone pastors care for the coaches; District...

The Cry for Spiritual Fathers and Mothers

by Jim Wall, www.acts2network.org I didn’t realize as we went to dinner that night that my life would never be the same. A few years ago, Joel Comiskey and I taught a seminar on “cell church planting” in San Salvador, El Salvador. As we sat at dinner with...

Discipleship Begins Inside the Cell (part 2)

by Ralph Neighbour I struggled several years ago with how to coach cell members to distinguish between authentic prophesying (as defined in 1 Corinthians 14:3 and demonstrated in 1 Corinthians 14:24ff) and “Doctor Talk.” By the term “Doctor Talk” I refer to...

Inside – out discipleship! 

by Daphne Kirk, www.gnation2gnation.com I like to think of coaching coaches as simply making disciples who make disciples. We all learn best experientially, and by modeling. So as the coach is discipled, he or she will go “and do likewise” and disciple the...

The Forgotten Disciplines

The Forgotten Disciplines by Mario Vega, http://www.elim.org.sv/ The books of the Bible were written in the context of agrarian societies. Those societies were displaced primarily by the industrial revolution and now by the information age. Along with the society...