📝 Worksheet: Discerning My Call to Life Coaching Ministry
Worksheet: Discerning My Call to Life Coaching Ministry
Topic One: The Call to Life Coaching as Your Ministry
Course: Coaching Ministry Foundations
Theme: Helping others take faithful next steps with truth, grace, and action.
This worksheet helps you reflect on whether God may be calling you to serve others through Life Coaching Ministry. Topic One introduces Ministry Coaching as a Spirit-led way of walking beside people through listening, prayer, encouragement, biblical wisdom, and faithful next steps.
Part 1: Opening Scripture Reflection
Read the following passages slowly.
1 Thessalonians 5:11, WEB
“Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.”
James 1:19, WEB
“So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger.”
Ephesians 2:10, WEB
“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.”
Reflection
What phrase from these passages stands out to you most?
How do these passages connect with Life Coaching Ministry?
Where have you seen God use encouragement, listening, or spiritual conversation in your life?
Part 2: Personal Calling Reflection
In Topic One, students are invited to consider whether their ministry impact may come through presence, listening, and walking beside others, not only through preaching, teaching, or leading from the front.
Answer the following questions honestly.
Do people naturally come to you for encouragement, prayer, advice, or perspective?
What kinds of concerns do people usually bring to you?
When someone shares a struggle, what is your first instinct?
A. To listen
B. To give advice
C. To fix the problem
D. To avoid getting involved
E. Other: ___________________________
What strengths might God have already placed in you for Life Coaching Ministry?
What fears or hesitations do you have about serving as a Life Coach Minister?
Part 3: Case Study Reflection
Review the case study about Angela and Leah.
Angela did not try to become the expert in Leah’s life. She listened, asked gentle questions, honored Leah’s responsibility, and helped Leah identify one faithful next step.
Reflection Questions
What signs suggested that Angela may have a calling toward Life Coaching Ministry?
How did Angela avoid becoming the “fixer”?
What did Angela do that helped Leah feel heard and respected?
Which question from Angela seemed most helpful?
What boundary should Angela remember if more people begin coming to her for help?
Part 4: Ministry Sciences Reflection
Ministry Sciences helps us see people as whole persons before God. Leah’s struggle was not merely about time management. She was carrying emotional exhaustion, relational concerns, spiritual desire, guilt, comparison, and a longing for purpose.
Whole-Person Discernment
Think of someone you know who may feel stuck, discouraged, confused, or spiritually hungry. Do not write their full name if privacy is a concern.
What visible issue are they facing?
What deeper concerns may be connected to that issue?
Spiritual: ___________________________________________
Emotional: __________________________________________
Relational: __________________________________________
Practical: ___________________________________________
Calling or purpose: ___________________________________
How could you honor this person as an image-bearer of God rather than treating them as a problem to solve?
Part 5: Truth, Grace, and Action
Ministry Coaching helps people take faithful next steps through Truth, Grace, and Action.
Truth
What truth may need to be named in a coaching conversation?
Example: “I feel stuck,” “I am avoiding a decision,” “I need help,” or “God may be stirring something new.”
Your answer:
Grace
What grace may need to be offered?
Example: “You are not a failure,” “God is still at work,” or “You can be honest before God.”
Your answer:
Action
What small faithful next step could be encouraged?
Example: prayer, a conversation, asking for help, serving once, making a plan, or seeking wise counsel.
Your answer:
Part 6: Practice Writing Coaching Questions
A Life Coach Minister does not rush to give answers. A Life Coach Minister learns to ask questions that help another person reflect before God.
Write five coaching questions you could ask someone who says, “I feel stuck.”
Now review your questions.
Which question is most open-ended?
Which question best invites spiritual discernment?
Which question best leads toward a faithful next step?
Part 7: Boundaries and Humility
Life Coaching Ministry is not therapy, clinical counseling, or crisis intervention. A Life Coach Minister must know when to listen, when to pray, when to encourage, and when to refer someone to a pastor, counselor, doctor, emergency service, or other trained professional.
Reflection
What kinds of situations might be beyond your role as a Life Coach Minister?
Why is it important not to become the fixer, rescuer, or controller?
How can humility protect both the coach and the person being coached?
Complete this sentence:
“As a Life Coach Minister, I am called to walk beside people, but I am not called to…”
Part 8: My First Faithful Step
After completing this topic, what is one step you can take to grow in Life Coaching Ministry?
Choose one:
A. Practice listening without interrupting
B. Ask better questions in conversations
C. Pray about whether God is calling me to this ministry
D. Talk with a ministry leader about this calling
E. Begin noticing people who need encouragement
F. Other: ___________________________
My Next Step
This week, I will:
I will do this by:
I will ask God to help me by:
Closing Prayer
Lord, teach me to listen with patience, speak with grace, and walk beside others with humility. Help me notice where You are already at work in people’s lives. Keep me from trying to fix what only You can heal. Give me wisdom to ask good questions, courage to offer truth, and love to encourage faithful action. In Jesus’ name, Amen.