What Making Disciples Is NOT! And How Coaching Can Help!

Aren't we supposed to just tell people what to do?

There IS a place for telling! Telling comes first. We all tell the children in our lives not to cross the street without looking. We would not let them learn from their own mistakes there. But as they grow we move from telling to teaching.

Telling > Teaching

We teach them how to feed themselves. We teach them to bathe and dress themselves, etc. Eventually, we teach them how to make quality decisions with friendships, future goals, and the like. Then we move to training.

Telling > Teaching > TrainingĀ 

Training looks like explaining how something works and then letting them learn by doing. "Here's how to wash the dishes." And then they get to give it a go. Teaching turns to training in the "doing" phase. "Here's how to manage your money" etc. Then comes trusting.

Telling > Teaching > Training > Trusting

Every parent of an adult child has had to practice this. You launch them off to college or their first home and you wonder if the...

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