{"id":30220,"date":"2023-01-18T15:00:30","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T23:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/?p=30220"},"modified":"2023-01-17T20:01:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T04:01:08","slug":"clients-dont-pay-us-to-coach-them-but-tell-them-what-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/clients-dont-pay-us-to-coach-them-but-tell-them-what-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Clients Don’t Pay Us To Coach Them, but Tell Them What To Do!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Camacho is a man who has lived many lives, having served in the military, business world, as a pastor, as well as a leadership coach and author. Undoubtedly, his years of extensive experience provide him a unique perspective to speak into the lives of followers of Christ who desire to invest in and coach others to encourage them to live their fullest life in Christ. In his book, Mining for Gold, <\/em>he finalizes this work by revisiting the four principles of his leadership tool. He states, “Gold is everywhere\u2026 Open your eyes to see it\u2026 Learn the skills to draw it out\u2026 <\/em>[and] Develop others continually.”[1]<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Kingdom leaders are scarce. <\/strong>In his opening line, Camacho writes, “Thriving kingdom leaders are like pure gold. They are very valuable and they are quite scarce.”[2]<\/a> What is unique about gold? As we learned from Saifedean Ammous’ The Bitcoin Standard, <\/em>gold is incredibly distinct, unable to be reproduced, and thus has maintained its value since the beginning of time. Similarly, Camacho observes that gold is beautiful, pure, malleable, and rare.[3]<\/a> So while he believes kingdom leaders are rare, he also believes that by the very design of God, there is, in fact, an abundance of “gold” if only we will begin to see others as God sees them. Revisiting the four key concepts of Mining for God<\/em>, we learn the following:<\/p>\n