Sample of 21 Powerful Questions for Ministry Leaders

Gary Rohrmayer

Vision & Calling

1. What future is God inviting you to help create?

2. Where do your gifts and your community’s needs most overlap right now?

3. If you said “no” to one good thing to say “yes” to the best thing, what would change?

Team & Culture

4. Where is trust strong—and where is it fragile?

5. What conversations are you avoiding? What would courage look like?

6. How will you celebrate and reinforce the behaviors you want multiplied?

Discipleship & Mission

7. Who is your next disciple-making investment with?

8. What is your clearest on-ramp for a not-yet believer this month?

9. What is one practice your church can start/stop/strengthen in the next 30 days?

Personal Health

10. What activities gives you life, that you’ve been neglecting?

11. Where are you leading from hurry rather than overflow?

12. What boundaries would protect your Sabbath and soul?

Execution

13. What is the next smallest step that moves the mission forward?

14. What will you measure weekly to know you’re learning?

15. What could you accomplish in 48 hours to build momentum?

Leadership Development

16. Who are your top two emerging leaders? What do they need next?

17. How will you give away real responsibility—plus support—this quarter?

18. What celebration will reinforce multiplication?

Resilience & Renewal

19. Where are you seeing God’s grace at work right now?

20. What is the invitation from the Lord in this resistance?

21. What promise of Scripture will you stand on as you act?