Eddie Hammett, a Ministry Partner with The Columbia Partnership wrote that Coaching is about asking powerful questions more than offering advice or counsel. Some of the powerful questions I’m working with these days seek to move churches to live out a missional lifestyle and ministry.
1. What’s working?
2. What’s not working?
3. How does what you do and who you are line up with your divine mission?
4. What’s missing?
5. What adjustments is the Holy Spirit calling you to make now?
6. What is needed to make the needed shifts?
7. Who can help make this happen?
8. How does our God evaluate our effectiveness in today’s mission field?
9. What would please Jesus more?
10. Who is God calling us to be now?
11. How does this differ from who we have been?
12. What kind of leader do I need to be to make this happen in the next 6 months? 1 year?
13. How would we define success for our church?
14. How successful are we being in light of this definition?
15. What is needed now?
As you help others or evaluate your own ministry, these are good questions to consider.