Enduring Churches Podcast with Alan and Trent

Episode 60: The Pastor as Protector

Episode 60: The Pastor as Protector

1. You are responsible for your flock
2. Who are you supposed to protect your flock from?
3. How do you protect them?

• More of a guide than anything else
• Guide people safely through trouble.

A protector builds a sense of security.

 

Spiritual protector

• Recognize where people are vulnerable.
• Be careful with your comments
• Equip people to care for themselves and then others

 

We’ve learned we have a greater role as a physical protector

• Watch out for people who are physically and emotionally vulnerable.
• Be careful with your comments.
• Flip it: Equip people to care first for others and then for themselves.

Episode 59: Realistic Attendance Expectations and Why they Matter

Episode 59: Realistic Attendance Expectations and Why they Matter

 

When will we meet together as a church?

 

What will it look like when we do?

 

Will we be the same as before the lock down?

 

Why is it unrealistic

 

• Cultural reality
  • Sundays aren’t sacred, maybe we need to change.
  • Most churches haven’t considered when they meet.

• Spiritual reality
  • Make up of your church
    • Spiritually mature
    • Spiritually growing
    • Spiritually immature
    • Cultural Christians & Non-believers
  • If you are healthy, you have all groups, can’t expect the same commitment from all groups.
  • Ideally, you have 25% from each group

• Practical Reality
  • Nature of real life
    • sick
    • travelling
    • Spiritually worn down

Why has it changed?

• Loss of cultural Christianity

Episode 58: When Who, and How to Help

Episode 58: When Who, and How to Help

1. You are responsible for your flock
2. Who are you supposed to protect your flock from?
3. How do you protect them?

• More of a guide than anything else
• Guide people safely through trouble.

A protector builds a sense of security.

 

Spiritual protector

• Recognize where people are vulnerable.
• Be careful with your comments
• Equip people to care for themselves and then others

 

We’ve learned we have a greater role as a physical protector

• Watch out for people who are physically and emotionally vulnerable.
• Be careful with your comments.
• Flip it: Equip people to care first for others and then for themselves.

Bonus: Preparing to Reopen

24 Questions Your Church Should Answer Before People Return

 

Ken Braddy

Episode 57: What I'm Learning About Virtual Me

Episode 57 What I'm Learning About Virtual Me

1. Learning to be more self-aware

• mannerisms
• gestures
• eyes

Tendency to be shorter

• Saying more in less time

Self-critiquing

• Hard to do, but forced to see myself as one attending with others
• Sincerity and natural versus editing
  • What is the quality of your live stream?

Creativity

• Unlocking possibilities
• Trent…on the Road
• Intimacy - Alan's announcements

Episode 56: Books that Have Changed Us

Episode 56: Books that Have Changed Us

 

Most recently

The Road Back to You - Ian Morgan Cron

Bridges out of poverty - Payne, Devol and Smith

Bait of Satan - Bevere

 

Early in my ministry

The Winning Attitude - John Maxwell

Experiencing God - Henry Blackaby

The Purpose Driven Life - Rick Warren

Your work matters to God - Sherman

 

Classic

Concentric Circles of Concern - Oscar Thompson

Staying up up up in a down world - Zig Ziglar

 

Business Book

5 Dysfunctions of a Team - Patrick Lencioni

Good to Great - Jim Collins

Now discover your strengths - Buckingham, Clifton

Today matters - John Maxwell

7 Habits of Highly succesful people - Covey

 

Devotional

Quest for Character - Chuck Swindoll

Draw the Circle - 40 day prayer challenge - Batterson

One year of Daily insights - Zig Ziglar

 

Historical

Undaunted Courage - Stephen Ambrose

Tramp for God - Corrie TenBoom

 

Biography

Payne Stewart

Tim Conway - autobiography "What's so funny"

Kisses from Katie - Katie Davis

 

Marriage 

Men are from Mars Women are from Venus - Gray

Love and Respect - Eggerich

His needs Her needs - Harley

 

Cutting Edge

Soul Tsunami - Leonard Sweet

cup of coffee at the Soul Cafe - Sweet

The Forgotten Ways-Hirsch

Episode 55: An Encouraging Pastor

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

I9: Dana's Interview with Christie Seeley

Dana Young takes the mic for a great interview with Christie Seeley.

Episode 54: On the Other Side

Episode 54: On the Other Side

1. I hope I deepen my trust in God.
2. I hope I value more creativity in my ministry.

• What have you learned about yourself and your church during this time?
• What have you learned from other churches in the past month?

I hope I have learned to look out for the vulnerable.

• who have you missed in your community?

I hope I learn to support other churches more passionately.

• Do you have a relationship with other pastors in your area?
• Have you encouraged your church family to work with other churches?

I hope I will be more proactive in ministry opportunities.

• Are you willing to dream bigger now?
• Are you willing to consider new and different possibilities now?

I hope I stood as a strong example of Christ-like leadership for my church.

Episode 54: On the other side of all this

Episode 54: On the Other Side of This

1. I hope I deepen my trust in God.
2. I hope I value more creativity in my ministry.

• What have you learned about yourself and your church during this time?
• What have you learned from other churches in the past month?

I hope I have learned to look out for the vulnerable.

• who have you missed in your community?

I hope I learn to support other churches more passionately.

• Do you have a relationship with other pastors in your area?
• Have you encouraged your church family to work with other churches?

I hope I will be more proactive in ministry opportunities.

• Are you willing to dream bigger now?
• Are you willing to consider new and different possibilities now?

I hope I stood as a strong example of Christ-like leadership for my church.