Episode 776: Small Church Dysfunction: David Ashcraft Talks about Growth at LCBC, Succession, and Growing the Global Leadership Summit
Former LCBC Senior Pastor David Ashcraft talks about the small church dysfunction he encountered when he arrived at LCBC when it was just a small church, how it scaled into a mega-church of 22,000, succession, and how he repositioned the Global Leadership Summit for the future.
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