I have one client who I very often ask, “Who can help you with this?” He’ll usually respond, “That’s a good question,” and then he proceeds to come up with more people who can help him. We’d had about eight appointments and I had probably asked him that...
My book Coaching 101 lays out the basic structure of a coaching relationship. It assumes a formalized coaching relationship with a beginning, a middle, and an end. However, you can also use coaching in your ministry in less formal ways– just as a way of relating...
One challenge we face in coaching is to learn how to ask open-ended questions. From an early age we are exposed to closed questions. Parents, for example, usually ask closed questions: Did you do that? Are you ready to…? In school we are given true/false or multiple...
I conducted an experiment for one year (although with humans, not guinea pigs). The goal was to not answer people’s questions directly, but to first ask, “What do you think?” I would listen, summarize without evaluating or interpreting. Then I’d invite them to...
Are certain sins or struggles in your life strongholds? Or are they stronghabits? A stronghold has a spiritual component to it. There is more spiritual warfare involved and we need to pray (and receive prayer) for deliverance. Some other areas of our lives may...
By guest blogger Dave Wasemann of www.visionteam.info When you’re balancing leading a local congregation with a deficient budget and angry people, ministry can get ugly fast. You need a bigger perspective, that calm divine company that directs your eyes upward....
