Today on Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram have a question for you.

On a scale of 1 to 10, how emotionally intelligent are you?

I'm going to start today's program with a story of how my lack of emotional intelligence

literally almost destroyed my ministry.

You don't want to miss it.

Today on Living on the Edge, Chip Ingram opens First Timothy chapter 4 and builds the case

that doing the right thing in the wrong way is still the wrong thing.

Coaching tip number five from the Apostle Paul, no amount of gift or knowledge can make up for a lack of emotional intelligence.

Chip shares a story from his early years as a pastor that makes the point unforgettable. I'm Dave

Drouy, and we're in our series called You Can Make Disciples Personal Coaching from the Apostle Paul.

You can always revisit any of these lessons at Living on the Edge.org. Well, here's Chip

Ingram with his message titled, Step Into. Coaching tip number five from the Apostle Paul as he gives us some life coaching as he talked

to that young man Timothy is that no amount of gift or brains can make up for a lack of emotional

intelligence. One of the dangers of getting really clear, getting very focused,

focusing, saying this is what God wants me to do, is you can like run over people on the journey.

You can be insensitive to what's going on around you. You can do the very right thing in the very wrong way or at the wrong time, and you can

actually blow up what God wants to do.

I have so many illustrations of how I've done this.

I don't know where to begin.

But I was a young pastor in the southern part of the country.

It wasn't until I went to this church.

I realized that people in America still had a concept of the north and the south.

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