Enduring Churches Podcast with Alan and Trent

Episode341: Our Interaction on 13 Things You Should Never Say from the Pulpit

 

 

Link to Joe McKeever's 2015 Article

Episode 340: More on Technology: 5 Questions to Consider

1. Websites versus social media?
2. To app or not to app?
3. To go sermon snippets or full length?
4. To AI or not to AI?
5. Hard lines or Cell phones?
   1. 911 service requires a hard line for accurate location services

Episode 339: Multi-tasking in Ministry

1. Take your family with you to a meeting or hospital visit but include a dinner or ice cream date after.
2. Discipleship on the road.  Take a person you are discipling on the road with you.  In the car = captive audience and allows for some great conversations.
3. Use Evernote or another software to work on sermons or plans while waiting somewhere  or use notes on your iphone
4. Read on the go.  Audible is a great tool for allowing you to "read" a book by listening as you drive
   1. Use library apps to read books or listen to books
5. Strategic working lunches.

 

2 Reminders

• Make room for divine interruptions
• There are times when multi-tasking is not appropriate!!!!

5 Areas in Need of Critical Training

 

1. Deacons
   1. more than an oversight board
2. Sunday School Teachers
   1. lack of care
   2. lack of interaction
   3. lack of outreach
3. Children's and Student Ministry leaders
   1. generational changes
   2. new challenges
4. Safety teams
   1. not just about getting to "carry" at church
5. Finance committees
   1. could pick several specific committees, but this one is greatly needed

Episode 336: Evangelism: Old School Advice for a Modern World

 

George Hunter's "Grand Strategy" (1979) suggests:

1. Those who visit your church

2. Those who desire membership in your church

3. Those who have recently lost faith 

4. Those among whom churches or religious movements are growing

5. Those of the same homogeneous unit as your membership

6. Those with conscious needs your ministry can address

7. Those who are in transition

Episode 335: Our Interview with Alex: A Ukranian Ministerial Student

Episode 334: Our Interview With the Succession Sherpa, Will Heath

 

Please check out the Succesion Sherpa here

 

Get Will's book Embracing Succession here

Episode 333: 3 UP and 3 Down…Alan and Trent each answer 3 Questions on the Air

Four things we overvalue and undervalue in our churches:   Overvalue the pulpit and undervalue the classroom   Overvalue our position our undervalue our (influence) responsibility     Overvalue tradition and undervalue history     Overvalue programs and undervalue process