Helping Pastors be More
Effective
Coaching
Jim
provides coaching services as his
schedule allows. You can contact him to
discuss availability.
Preaching
In addition to teaching homiletics for
years, Jim has written several
books on Preaching.
His sermons
and sermon illustrations appear in WordSearch, Accordance
and Logos
Bible Software.
He provides training and coaching services
that include:
- Preaching for Transformation
- Preaching the Narratives
- Preaching with Impact: keeping the
exact meaning and full impact of the
scripture intact in the sermon.
- Illustrating well.
You choose what you want to work on and we
will provide video links for you to view the
training, coach you in applying the teaching
via video conferencing and then provide
feedback after watching your sermon.
Leadership
A few years ago Dr.
Wilson was conflict arbitrator for a
church 2400 miles away. The distance was
intentional. The church wanted a
consultant far away from the State
Convention’s flagship church to insure
impartiality. When he arrived, he found
the typical things you’d expect: less than
ethical behavior, bad decisions,
mistrust—it was all there. But what he
didn’t expect was to discover that one of
the sparks that ignited the conflict was a
previous consultation.
It wasn’t
that there were bad ideas in the
consultant’s report; it was the approach
of relinquishing pastoral control to an
outsider that increased the tension. The
church and pastor adopted the consultant’s
report, and agreed to follow the
recommendations, but when the pastor did
not execute the plans to the leader’s
satisfaction, things went south quickly.
Some pastors
hesitate to use consultants for this very
reason. The consultant breezes into town,
talks to a couple of people, observes a
worship service or two and then writes a
report that creates a new set of
expectations for the pastor to live up to.
Now the pastor not only has the tyranny of
deadlines and the whirlwind of activity,
he also has a new set of expectations to
meet written by an “expert.”
That’s why Dr. Wilson has moved away from
consulting for churches to do coaching for
Pastors. The coaching process can involve
consulting services, serving as fresh
eyes for pastors.
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Brief
Bio
FreshMinistry's Jim Wilson started preaching when he
was 17, became a pastor when he was 18 and served as
a full-time pastor until he became a
professor. Today, he is Professor of
Leadership Formation and the Director of the Doctor
of Ministry Program at Gateway Seminary
where he has served since 2006.
Though a full-time member of the Seminary faculty,
Dr. Wilson continues to serve the local church as a
Teaching Pastor of Lakeshore
City Church in Corona, CA In addition,
he is speaks
at conferences, seminars, retreats and in other
local churches.
Wilson is an award winning writer with hundreds
of pieces in print and the author, co-author
or contributor to more than thirty
books. Zondervan Academic, Broadman &
Holman, Lexham Press, Serendipity House,
LifeWay, Weaver Book Company, Standard Publishing,
and Tyndale House have published his work. His sermons
and sermon illustrations appear in WordSearch,
Accordance
and Logos
Bible Software.
Jim graduated with a BA from Wayland University and
a MDiv and DMin from Golden Gate Baptist Theological
Seminary. He has certifications as a Church
Consultant from Society of
Church Consultants. Transitional Pastor
from LifeWay, and is a MBTI practitioner. |
