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”