According to the authors, coaching is " about improving or sustaining performance towards identified goals, through a structured intervention programme, and delivering within constraints of time, place and resource" (Lyle & Cushion, 2016,p.337). The authors then went on to describe six key characteristics of coaching. These include, coaching is a process, commonality and genericism, performance and participation coaching, coaching is a cognitive activity within a social context, coaching is a social process and the coach is a manager (Lyle & Cushion, 2016, p.337-339). I have observed all of these characteristics throughout my coaching career but for the sake of interest in this topic I would like to further explore coaching as a cognitive activity within a social context. please further expand on this and include biblical references