Christian Life Coaching: What is it?

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Christian Life Coaching

A very basic definition might be that Christian Life Coaching is like sports' coaching for Christians. An athlete employs a coach to get the very best performance out of themselves that they can. Can they train themselves? Yes. Can they achieve great things without a coach? Yes. So why do they do it?

A sports-person knows, whilst it is possible to do it for yourself, it doesn't often work well. It's better to have someone who can help you explore ways to improve and develop. It's better to have someone who you will have to explain any lack of progress too. And it's just better to have the support available from someone else.

A Life Coach will help you explore every aspect of your life and will work with you to ensure you make progress in the areas you know need attention. It isn't about providing formulas for success, but working through your own strengths and weaknesses to discover the way to your success.

Christian Life Coaching is about doing the same from a Christian perspective. For the Christian, the whole of life is important in personal discipleship. There are many people offering life coaching services, but for the Christian, it is important to have someone who understands the spiritual side of things.

Christians have long acknowledged God is the One who changes people. Life Coaches are often trying to achieve what is in God's domain by other means. You need a coach who understands this and works with God to bring about a lasting change in your life.

A new life is a wonderful prospect, but a new life without Jesus Christ is unthinkable. To gain a true perspective on life, you need a Christian Life Coach to help you.

To return, just for a moment, to the sports coaching metaphor, if you are a sprinter, you would not employ a javelin coach to help you, would you? You would want to employ the best person for the job. If you are a Christian wanting some life coaching, why would you employ anyone other than a Christian life coach to help you?

As one would guess, the next move is yours and remember the first session is free. All you have to do is e-mail me. eburns@dealingwithsuccess.com

Something I think you'll like and allow you to understand:

Imagine a woman, whom we'll call Betzy, who has a heart the size of the Grand Canyon. She is gracious, loving, devoid of prejudice, and with an understanding and empathy wide enough to accompany everything and everybody. Because she is so loving, she has a wide variety of friends and one night she decides to have a party and invite them all. She rents a hall to hold everyone. And her guests begin to arrive. Men, women, and children show up, of every description, ideology, background, temperament, taste, social standing, and religion. A curious mixture of persons fills the hall. Liberals and conservatives, fundamentalists and feminists, Promise Keepers and New Agers, priests and anticlerics, union presidents and vice-presidents, animal rights activists and persons involved in the seal hunt, meat-eaters and militant vegetarians all mingle with each other. Present is the president of a local pro-life association, but the president of pro-choice is also there. Ian Paisley is there, as is the leader of the Irish Republican Army.

Given the mix, there is a fair amount of tension, but because Betzy is there, because she is in the center of the room, and because they respect who she is and what she stands for, everyone, for the night at least, is polite to one another and is enough engulfed in a certain spirit of tolerance, respect, decency, and charity to stretch them beyond how they would normally feel, think, and act.

As you can image, such a gathering would work only while Betzy was actually present. She may have to excuse herself and leave, or should persons get preoccupied in ways that would make them forget the real reason why they are there, you would soon enough get a combination of fireworks and dissipation that would empty the room. This particular mix of persons can be brought together and kept together only around one person, Betzy.

Do you see where I'm going with this and I borrowed this story from a book written by Ronald Rolheiser, called "The Holy Longing, the search for a Christian spirituality".

Are you ready?