A coaching relationship is a transforming relationship. Jesus spent only three years with his twelve disciples and by the time He was leaving them, these ordinary men, unschooled people, crude fishermen became world changers. They turned their world upside down. It takes a transformed people to transform our world.
There are many people in our churches that are warming the pews kind of like the substitutes in a football match, watching a few superstars performing some theatrics on the pitch instead of them being on the fields themselves changing their world. There is nothing really wrong with these people sitting in our pews. I think on the contrary there is everything wrong with those of us on the pulpit. Is our preaching and teaching bringing any transformation to our pews?
If the answer to the above question was yes, then our Nation would have been turned upside down. We have people with a lot of knowledge, Bible knowledge, and great discipline. But transformation does not begin with knowledge or even discipline, it starts with desire. Coaching is a new way to work at change that is designed around motivation, not instruction. Coaching starts with what you want to change based on what God is doing in you, and the whole process is arranged to maximize your motivation – because if you are really motivated you will really change.
Paul Jeong, head of Natural Church Development in Korea who has trained thousands of Christian Leaders, has this to say,
“ I believe coaching produces more transformation than teaching and consulting. Here’s my reality. I’ve taught more than 40,000 Pastors and Leaders in the last five years. I believe that less than 10% of them experienced change. One year later, maybe 1 to 3 % had experienced ongoing transformation. But through TLC coaching (which both my wife and I have also gone through), more than 90% of those I walk with are transformed.”
