PCP 264: 7 Questions To Ask When Counseling People

When meeting with and counseling people in your church, there can be an internal pressure to think you have to have all the right answers. In this episode, we share questions to ask that are often more helpful than giving advice. Welcome to episode 264 of Practical Church Planting. Here are the 7 questions we discuss in this episode:

• What would you like to see happen?
• How would you want to go about doing that?
• How is this impacting what you think about God?
• Why do you think this upsets you so much?
• If you could do it over again, what would you do differently?
• Repeat a question if you didn't get a real answer
• Is there anything I can do to help you?

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