Episode 629: Tod Bolsinger on Canoeing the Mountains, Disappointing People at a Rate They Can Absorb, and How to Handle Sabotage and the Anxiety of Leadership
Why I’m Not an Exvangelical
Oh my, these are disorienting times. First, the rise in deconstruction, and now a jump in the Exvangelical movement. You’d have to have your head in the sand to miss the fact that many people are leaving the church, and…
Episode 628: Kara Powell on Why the Next Generation is Deconstructing Their Faith and Walking Away, Combatting the Toxicity of Social Media, and What the Next Generation Wishes the Church Will Stop and Start Doing
Episode 627: John Ortberg Breaks Down the Divide Between Leadership and Spiritual Formation, Why it’s Not True That if You’re Not a Leader You’re a Loser, and His Reflections on Willow Creek and Church Moral Failures
Episode 626: John Mark Comer on the Crisis in Discipleship, Why Weekend Sermons and Services Aren’t Resonating, Determining Your Real Motives, and Why He’s No Longer Traveling and Speaking
Episode 625: Brady Shearer on Social Media Trends for 2024, How TikTok is Disrupting Social Media, The Best Social Media Strategy for Churches, and the New Metrics for Digital Church
It’s Time to Break Free From the Cover Band Model of Church Leadership
The church today is full of people (pastors, worship leaders, etc.) trying to be someone else — and it’s time to break free from the cover band model of church leadership. Maybe you can relate to how we got here. …
Episode 624: Ryan Burge on the Rise of the Nones, Christianity as a Luxury Good, the Threat to Democracy with the Decline in Religion, and Why the Nones are Very Reachable
Episode 623: David Kinnaman on Why 84% of Americans Are Now Spiritually Open, Why 25% of People are Still Deconstructing, and Why Your Ministry Might Want to Target Women (Not Men) if Your Church Wants to Reach and Keep Families
5 Shifts Every Pastor Needs to Make When It Comes To AI This Year
Pastors and church leaders seem to be developing a curious relationship with AI. They generally don’t use it, but almost everyone has an opinion about it. According to a Gloo/Barna survey, only 19% of pastors use AI daily or weekly.…
Episode 622: J.P. Pokluda and Gabrielle McCullough Talk 2024 Church Trends: Why the Stable Church is Disappearing, How to Engage the New Core of Your Church—Millennials and Gen Z—in Serving, Giving, And Confession, & a New Breed of Megachurch Pastor
7 Church Trends That Will Disrupt 2024
2024 will be a pivotal year for most church leaders and probably will be for your church as well. 7 disruptive church trends are creeping up on us in 2024, and there’s no better time to prepare for them than…