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(4) How is your spouse doing?

(5) How are you doing as a couple?




(1) How is the condition of your soul?














(4) What would enhance your relationship with your spouse?



(2) Where have you experienced the most growth lately?


(4) Where are you most vulnerable to sin?

(5) What sins are you battling?

(6) What compels you to worship God?



(2) In what ways are you making disciples?





(1) How are you leading your family?







(2) What is the mission of your ministry?




(1) What challenges do you face personally?

(2) What temptations occur in your personal life?



(1) What challenges do you face spiritually?

(2) What temptations occur in your spiritual life?


(4) Where are you prone to wander spiritually?


(1) What challenges do you face missionally?

(2) What temptations occur in your ministry life?

(3) Where are you prone to wander in ministry?


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(2) When is your birthday? Anniversary?

(3) What makes you excited or feel really alive?







(10) How is ministry impacting your family?

(11) How is your family impacting your ministry?

(12) How is your ministry impacting your faith?

(13) How is your faith impacting your ministry?

 (14) How is your personality affecting others?

(15) How are others affecting your personality?


(17) How is your character influencing your culture?

(18) How is your character influencing your church community?

(19) How are you developing character in your leaders?















(6) How are you and God doing?



(1) Who do you need to help you?

(2) To whom will you be accountable?

(3) How can I help you?


(5) Where is your heart hard?

(6) What lies do you believe?

(7) What doubts have crept in?


(9) How will we pray?



(1) How would you describe your personal call?



(4) How have others affirmed your call to ministry?






(4) What will you do to develop your leadership?


(1) When has your call to leadership been challenged?

(2) Under what circumstances have you doubted your call?



(5) How should your call be focused or clarified?

(6) What does your call’s success look like?


(1) Who have been mentors in your life?


(3) Who else do you need to help you?






(3) How do you practice abiding in Jesus?

(4) What increases your affections toward God and others?

(5) What deadens your affections toward God and others?




(2) What information are you missing?

(3) How hungry are you to know God?





(3) What does your prayer life look like?


(5) What are you praying for?

(6) What are your prayers revealing about your faith?




(2) What current obstacles hinder your spiritual growth?











(4) What are your spiritual gitfs?







(11) How is your church perceived by the culture?


(13) How do your leaders impact the culture?







(6) What is working now in connecting with culture?



(1) What does success in your mission look like?


(3) How close are you to that success now?




(7) Which of your leaders most impact the culture?








(3) What voices of discouragement are you listening to?








(11) What can help you understand your culture?

(12) Where do you most need God’s help?




*By Scott Thomas and Tom Wood

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The following questions can be used to protect a disciple in his leadership skills and development. Each section can take up to one hour to discuss between a coach and a disciple.


(1) How are you unique? (calling, gifts, passions, personality, experiences, sin patterns)

(2) How do you stay inspired? How often do you practice this?

(3) How do you apply the gospel to yourself? What is the message in your mind?

(4) What are the rythms of grace in your life? (Scripture, worship, prayer, community, family, time off)

(5) What idols compete for your worship? How do you forsake each idol?

(6) What sinful mental images repeatedly play in your head? How do you take those thoughts captive?

(7) How are you stewarding the gifts you have for the greatest benefit? (time, resources, skills)


(1) Who understands you best? Other than your family, who are the people with whom you share life together? (2 Timothy 2:2)

(2) Whom do you pray for? What specific petitions are you praying for them?

(3) Who would you like to choose to become one of your influencer friends? What is your plan for making this happen?

(4) How are you telling “truth in love” to the people under your leadership? When do you “spin” something?

(5) How faithful are you in being on time and following through with promises?

(6) Do you say yes and no with clarity so that it builds confidence and trust?

(7) Whom are the people you tend to try to please and why?

(8) How are you discipling each of your children and your spouse (if applicable)?

(9) Who really knows you?

(10) What relationships are broken in your life? What are you doing to bring reconciliation?


(1) How has God called you to serve him? How are you fulfilling this calling?

(2) What things nudge you away from following your calling?

(3) What is the most pressing leadership issue you are currently facing?

(4) Do people in your leadership area know with clarity what you expect of them?

(5) What are you doing well in your leadership? What needs your attention?

(6) How do you encourage those you are leading to follow the objectives of your organization?

(7) In what ways do you personify your calling?

(8) What opportunities did you decline for the sake of fulfilling your objectives?

(9) What are the stories that define the culture of your leadership area? How do you capture these stories? How are the stories being shared?


(1) Who is your team? (roles, styles)

(2) Who is going to replace you?

(3) How do you demonstrate your love for each team member?

(4) What dysfunctions in your team are you addressing?

(5) With whom do you sense the most synergy? How can you maximize this?

(6) With whom do you sense the least synergy? Why? How are you minimizing this?

(7) Whom do you struggle to trust? Why? How do you address issues of distrust with them?

(8) What inspires each team member? (Ask each one, “What aspect of your work brings you the most joy, and what stories do you tend to tell most often?)

(9) How do you empower your team members to exercise their greatest gifts and talents on the team?


(1) What does faithfulness in your calling look like for you?

(2) In which young leaders are you investing your life to develop?

(3) How are you making disciples?

(4) How are you equipping others to serve Jesus’ church more effectively?

(5) How are you living in a missional way?

*SOURCE: Scott Thomas and Tom Wood. Gospel Coach. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2013, Appendix 3.