Slides: Lesson 1
Relationship
Coaching
Matchmaking Ministers as Teachers of God’s Kingdom Principles of Love
Career and Bi-Vocational Ministry
Matchmaking and coaching can be full-time or bi-vocational
Matchmaking Ministry should intersect with every other ministry
- Kids (offering child care at events for single parents)
- Teens (classes)
- Young adult
- Substance Abuse (coaching, mentoring, support)
- Men
- Married
- Seniors
Why Coaching?
Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink
Clients need to identify – who they are & who they are looking for
Is the person you’re looking for looking for you?
Many haven’t put much thought into it
Driven by chemistry and attraction as a primary tool to establish compatibility
Relationships not working and they do not know why
Coaching Gets Results
Online dating and dating services have more failure than success
Matchmaking is only as successful as the client
Can put clients in front of the perfect match and they won’t know it
Coaching accelerates success in finding a match
Sets clients up for a lasting relationship
Creates positive changes in all area of life
Countering Culture
So much knowledge available online
People have never been more confused
Media, TV, Movies, News, “Science”, “Religion”
Bad coaching based on opinion, experiments, secular values and dumb ideas
Dysfunctional to navigate a dysfunctional system
Matchmakers as
coaches and ministers
People are hungering for truth and having a hard time finding it
The only foundation for a successful relationship is God’s Word
God invented marriage
Knowing the mind of the manufacturer
Man has come up with his own approaches – none are better than God’s
Kingdom Approach To Matchmaking
Tradition, Culture and “religion” have distorted God’s plan
Studying original Hebrew meanings of words
Kingdom perspective
- God did not create a religion
- Jesus came to restore the kingdom
John 18:36
Jesus answered “My kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would be fighting so that I would not be handed over to the Jews: but as it is, My kingdom is not of this realm.”
Seeking Love…Seeking God
People seeking Love are often seeking God
Working with Christian and non-Christian clients
People in pain over relationships
- Non-Christians - Try Jesus
- Christian - Ready to deepen their relationship with God
- Coachable in deepening their relationships with themselves
Luke 8:10
“ To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God, but to the rest it is in parables, so that seeing they may not see and hearing they may not understand”