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\u201cWe are called as leaders to mine for the gold in others, cooperate with God as he refines that gold and then help them invest that gold in the kingdom.\u201d (Camacho 2019, 4)\u00a0 God has prepared a gold mine, the treasure of His image in every human being.\u00a0 It is incredibly humbling to consider that the God of the universe crafted me and every person in the Milky Way galaxy in His image and has equipped them with gifts and abilities, gold, to be mined and refined.\u00a0 As Camacho describes the process of refining, we are reminded that the Holy Spirit does the work of refining and that as we cooperate with our God-given design, we thrive.\u00a0 In a culture that seeks autonomy, it is impossible for autonomous individuals to function without connection to a larger whole.\u00a0 We are interdependent on one another and in that interdependence, we are refined.\u00a0 So refining takes place in community, in relationship with God, ourselves (awareness of self as image bearers) and others.<\/span><\/p>\n

As I serve as an Instructional Coach, my role is to support people\u2019s journeys. There are so many similarities in the content, from the training I have received as a coach and the \u201cMining for Gold Process\u201d that Tom Camacho writes. (Camacho 2019, 59)\u00a0 (I am a little geeked out at the overlap of the content, my apologies).\u00a0 The four primary parts in the Mining for Gold process include: 1) deep listening\u00a0 2) asking great questions\u00a0 3) cooperating with the Holy Spirit and\u00a0 4) determining the right next steps.\u00a0 When I am in a coaching cycle with a person, the steps are very similar.\u00a0 The process involves 1)\u00a0 listening\u00a0 2)\u00a0 asking questions 3)\u00a0 collaborating with the individual to clarify goals and specify success indicators (reflecting on what has worked in the past) and 4) developing next steps.\u00a0 It is a cognitive coaching process for mediating thinking.\u00a0 The missing step, from the cognitive coaching model, is \u201ccooperating with the Holy Spirit\u201d.\u00a0 As I consider the similarities and the process by which God is using my training as an Instructional Coach with a call to ministry, I am humbled by His gold mining and refining process in me.\u00a0 God has prepared a gold mine in every human being and we have the immense privilege (responsibility by invitation) to be a part of Holy Spirit’s refining process in each one.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWe are called as leaders to mine for the gold in others, cooperate with God as he refines that gold and then help them invest that gold in the kingdom.\u201d (Camacho 2019, 4)\u00a0 God has prepared a gold mine, the treasure of His image in every human being.\u00a0 It is incredibly humbling to consider that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2489,1555],"class_list":["post-30182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dlgp02","tag-camacho","cohort-dlgp02"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30183,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30182\/revisions\/30183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}