My favorite five

Coaching

  Here are my favorite five daily self-coaching questions. Even if you’re not currently in a coaching relationship, ask yourself these questions each day. Take the time to think through your answers– you’ll be amazed at what you discover and what kind of...
Core coaching questions for multiplying movements

How can you help your people form missional communities?

Missional

As people come to know Jesus we form them into communities of Jesus-followers—called churches in the New Testament. These are disciple-making communities where people engage all the functions of the church:  worshipping, edifying one another, serving together, using...
Core coaching questions for multiplying movements

How can you help your people engage culture?

Missional

One of the major challenges of leading a church is kicking your people out of it. If they are spending all of their time within the church and with other Christians, they’re not out there engaging culture and making disciples. Engaging culture simply means living...

What’s next?

Coaching

This entry is part of a week-long series on powerful coaching questions. Sometimes in coaching we can spend a great deal of time identifying the key issues, brainstorming potential solutions, and crafting a plan for change. But all of this comes to nothing if we don’t...

What action steps can you take in the next 30 days?

Coaching

This entry is part of a week-long series on powerful coaching questions. Right after a client has had a major “ah-ha” moment– that breakthrough insight, like God just woke them up and made everything clear– they will usually state it: “Now I know what I...

How will you stay on track?

Coaching

This entry is part of a week-long series on powerful coaching questions. This question– “How will you stay on track?”– is one that I often ask after a person has established their goal and put their action plan in place. It’s particularly helpful when the...