Catalyst Coaching – Russell De Vos pt 2
Catalyst Coaching
Russell De Vos pt 2
In society today, we often find ourselves being pulled in so many different directions, we don’t really know which way is the right way. We tend to put our attention on the things screaming at us the loudest. Using the old adage of “the squeaky wheel gets the oil.”
If that sounds like you… if you keep telling yourself that you need to prioritize better. If you know, deep down on the inside, that you are letting your relationship with God slip… If you are feeling sense of guilt or regret because you are so busy and tired all of the time and the most precious things in life, your family and your relationship with God, is being put on the back burner… if any of this sounds even remotely familiar…then you will want to pay attention today!
My guest today has experienced the highs and the lows of success. To coin the old phrase from “Wide World of Sports” (which many younger people have never heard of) which says the “Thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.” My guest today has taken that ride.
Russell De Vos was a pastor of a great and thriving church in Bend. Oregon. Starting with just a handful of people, it quickly grew into 1500 people in just three years-time. Praise God! But, with that “thrill of victory” soon came the “agony of defeat.”
Distracted by the ever increasing pressures of success, he soon succumbed to the inevitable defeat. Not focusing on God, not focusing on his family, he ended up losing the church and he almost lost his family. But that was not the end of the story…
Out of that experience, he now helps other men who struggle through the same things he did. Today, he and his wife, Heather, enjoy each other more than ever. They are serving together and helping others who are going the struggles they had to endure. He is a Certified Life Coach, Teacher and Speaker with both the John Maxwell Team and the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching and is the founder of “The Catalyst Coaching” program.
Do these things just “happen” or is there a pattern of events, a pattern of habits that start someone down the path towards a fall or a failure?
Share with us some of the ways someone can protect themselves from these types of mindsets or patterns that will trip them up?
What you are saying is that, after failing…after a huge fall, a huge failing in life, in marriage and, in your case, in ministry and before God, there is hope. There is a way to get back up in life. Can you walk us through some of those steps?
In your coaching program, how do you minister these precepts to other men who may have already fallen and are grasping at straws right now, hoping – PRAYING – for a way back?
What Words of encouragement can you share with someone listening to us, right now, who may be experiencing some of the things you have shared with us today?
Russell, this all sounds so fascinating. As we talked off the air before, I can relate to just about everything you have shared with us. I am still, to this day, astounded that God can take a “mess and turn it into a message” of Hope that can only come through Him.
If someone wanted to reach out to you, to get more information on “The Catalyst Coaching Program” or to ask you a question or maybe to do an interview such as this, how can they do that? How can they get in touch with you?
Folks, the Bible is very clear in Romans 3:23, “All of sinned and come short of the Glory of God.” Although pastors are and should be held to a higher standard, remember, we are all humans and have the ability to make wrong decisions, too. Just like the average person out there.
George Patton once said it is not “How high a man goes that determines his success. But how high bounces after taking a fall.”
If you are struggling with some of the things that Russell and I have discussed today – or other things for that matter as we have really only brushed the surface here – you need to reach out to Russell De Vos right now, today.
