What Is a Christian life coach?

Christian coaching looks forward and encourages you to develop strategies for overcoming obstacles and achieving dreams. It is also different from mentoring. A Christian mentor encourages growth by imparting what God has given him or her. A Christian coach draws what God has given you out where you can use it. A Christian life coach approaches coaching from a biblical worldview. He or she, therefore, acknowledges the following important truths:

• Everyone is made in God’s image and likeness

• God is sovereign

• God is omniscient

• God loves to guide, empower, encourage, and help his children through life

• True fulfillment is only possible when people are living in line with God’s principles and plans

Christian life coaching is based on the understanding that God is the reason behind any success, rather than human ingenuity and providence.

There are a number of people-helping relationships such as discipling, mentoring, consulting, and counseling, but all these are very different from Christian life coaching. The most obvious difference is that Christian life coaching takes an inside-out approach. In other words, coaches endeavor to draw out what God has deposited in their clients. The other people-helping professions take the outside-in approach because they are mainly concerned what is called the “presenting problem”—the surface issue the client feels he or she needs help with—and acquiring the skills and abilities to deal with that issue.