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Alan and Trent are pastors helping churches and leaders make a difference and last.
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Monday Jun 01, 2020
Monday Jun 01, 2020
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Change does take time. Be patient.
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The attitude “We were here before you got here and will be here after you’re gone” usually proves true. Your attitude toward that statement will be reflected in the changes you choose to make and in your leadership.
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The only way you change #2 is by staying a long time and doing a lot of funerals.
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Make yourself as much of the community’s pastor as well as your churches.
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Laugh at yourself a lot, many older churches take themselves way too serious, so set a good tone.
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BE VISIBLE!
Monday May 25, 2020
Monday May 25, 2020
Episode 62: Is my need to be right killing my church?
- Know anybody like that?
- Are you sometimes like that?
- some people are not only always right – they are never wrong.
- Do you have a teachable spirit or not?
- Can you learn from your deacons?
- Can you learn from others on your staff?
- Can you learn from the older ladies in your church?
- Can you learn from someone in your church who opposes you or chews you out?
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Not talking about points that scripture is clear about
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But even with theology we can be kind without saying scripture is wrong
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Listen - If you hear yourself always talking then there is a problem
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Ask questions - and listen
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Ask for forgiveness
- Bob Goff said sometimes they are sharks and sometimes they are just insecure dolphins.
- Unconditional love verses Conditional love (based in fear)
- Whatever it is that you feel is inadequate about you has made you unable to love yourself. Being unable to love yourself has made you unable to love others.
Monday May 18, 2020
Monday May 18, 2020
- Fear of starting a new church
- Missed relational opportunities
- Decline
- Are you helping or hindering the church of Jesus around the world?
- Do you find it easier to pray for and support churches on the other side of the world than you do those in your own town?
Monday May 11, 2020
Monday May 11, 2020
Episode 60: The Pastor as Protector
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You are responsible for your flock
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Who are you supposed to protect your flock from?
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How do you protect them?
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More of a guide than anything else
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Guide people safely through trouble.
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Recognize where people are vulnerable.
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Be careful with your comments
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Equip people to care for themselves and then others
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Watch out for people who are physically and emotionally vulnerable.
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Be careful with your comments.
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Flip it: Equip people to care first for others and then for themselves.
Monday May 04, 2020
Monday May 04, 2020
Episode 59: Realistic Attendance Expectations and Why they Matter
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Cultural reality
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Sundays aren’t sacred, maybe we need to change.
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Most churches haven’t considered when they meet.
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Spiritual reality
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Make up of your church
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Spiritually mature
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Spiritually growing
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Spiritually immature
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Cultural Christians & Non-believers
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If you are healthy, you have all groups, can’t expect the same commitment from all groups.
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Ideally, you have 25% from each group
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Practical Reality
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Nature of real life
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sick
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travelling
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Spiritually worn down
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Loss of cultural Christianity
Sunday May 03, 2020
Sunday May 03, 2020
Episode 58: When Who, and How to Help
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You are responsible for your flock
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Who are you supposed to protect your flock from?
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How do you protect them?
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More of a guide than anything else
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Guide people safely through trouble.
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Recognize where people are vulnerable.
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Be careful with your comments
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Equip people to care for themselves and then others
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Watch out for people who are physically and emotionally vulnerable.
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Be careful with your comments.
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Flip it: Equip people to care first for others and then for themselves.
Wednesday Apr 22, 2020
Wednesday Apr 22, 2020
Monday Apr 20, 2020
Monday Apr 20, 2020
Episode 57 What I'm Learning About Virtual Me
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Learning to be more self-aware
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mannerisms
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gestures
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eyes
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Saying more in less time
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Hard to do, but forced to see myself as one attending with others
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Sincerity and natural versus editing
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What is the quality of your live stream?
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Unlocking possibilities
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Trent…on the Road
- Intimacy - Alan's announcements
Sunday Apr 12, 2020
Sunday Apr 12, 2020
Monday Apr 06, 2020
Monday Apr 06, 2020
Episode 55: A Truthful Encourager
The nature of people’s lives + pastoral levels of frustration = a possibility for a huge disconnect.
1. Know your people
* How are they feeling beat up by life?
2. Know your purpose for preaching the message you are preaching
* Textually driven
* What does it teach
* Let your congregation know what emotion they might experience
3. Know your feelings in preaching
* Don’t take your frustrations to the pulpit
* Attendance trends…don’t beat the people up who are there.
* Encouragement is not just positivity; it's a mindset for helping people.
* It’s learning how to communicate for results
11 Command and teach these things. 12 Don’t let anyone despise your youth, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, and in purity. 13 Until I come, give your attention to public reading, exhortation, and teaching. 14 Don’t neglect the gift that is in you; it was given to you through prophecy, with the laying on of hands by the council of elders. 15 Practice these things; be committed to them, so that your progress may be evident to all. 16 Pay close attention to your life and your teaching; persevere in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and your hearers. -- 1 Timothy 4:11-16 (CSB)...
Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father, younger men as brothers, 2 older women as mothers, and the younger women as sisters with all purity. -- 1 Timothy 5:1-2 (CSB).
...Teach and encourage these things. -- 1 Timothy 6:2 (CSB)...
* Don’t avoid difficult passages, but encourage people to hear and respond.
* Don't be afraid to say "I don't know"
* Be a lifelong learner