5 Leadership Questions Podcast on Church Leadership with Todd Adkins and Dan Iten

In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Eric Geiger and Todd Adkins are joined by Dr. Tony Evans, author of Kingdom Disciples and Kingdom Man. During their conversation, they discuss why it is important for a leader to be a reader and how to lead your family around the table.

BEST QUOTES

“I try to read people who I think will grow me in the area of where I am ministering at the time.”

“I read any and everything that I can get my hands on that is relevant to the audience to whom I am speaking because the Bible was not meant to just be an exegetical book to tell you what the author thought in Scripture, but from which you use what the author taught to the group that he was speaking to, to the relevant realities of the people whom you speak to.”

“You begin with after you’ve read your Bible, you read your newspaper.”

“We come from the Bible, to our people. But the people are coming from the world, to the Bible. We must respect their starting place as different than our starting place because that will affect how they hear what we have to say.”

“When the Bible was written, it was not written as a systematic theology, it was written as a biblical theology.”

“The job of the proclaimer is to keep the relevancy without compromising what has been written.”

“It is my contention that the unifying theme of all the Bible is the glory of God through the advancement of His Kingdom.”

“The Kingdom agenda is the visible demonstration of the comprehensive rule of God over every area of life. And those areas are divided into four categories: your individual life, your family life, your church life, and your community life.”

“The table was never used for just eating, the table was used for leading.”

“Be involved in the things that matter to your family, and not just ask your family to be involved in the things that matter to the leader.”

RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

Ministrygrid.com

Between Two Worlds by John Stott

Kingdom Man by Tony Evans

Kingdom Disciples by Tony Evans

In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Eric Geiger and Todd Adkins are joined by Dr. Tony Evans, author of Kingdom Disciples and Kingdom Man. During their conversation, they discuss why it is important for a leader to be a reader and how to lead your family around the table.

BEST QUOTES

“I try to read people who I think will grow me in the area of where I am ministering at the time.”

“I read any and everything that I can get my hands on that is relevant to the audience to whom I am speaking because the Bible was not meant to just be an exegetical book to tell you what the author thought in Scripture, but from which you use what the author taught to the group that he was speaking to, to the relevant realities of the people whom you speak to.”

“You begin with after you’ve read your Bible, you read your newspaper.”

“We come from the Bible, to our people. But the people are coming from the world, to the Bible. We must respect their starting place as different than our starting place because that will affect how they hear what we have to say.”

“When the Bible was written, it was not written as a systematic theology, it was written as a biblical theology.”

“The job of the proclaimer is to keep the relevancy without compromising what has been written.”

“It is my contention that the unifying theme of all the Bible is the glory of God through the advancement of His Kingdom.”

“The Kingdom agenda is the visible demonstration of the comprehensive rule of God over every area of life. And those areas are divided into four categories: your individual life, your family life, your church life, and your community life.”

“The table was never used for just eating, the table was used for leading.”

“Be involved in the things that matter to your family, and not just ask your family to be involved in the things that matter to the leader.”

RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

Ministrygrid.com

Between Two Worlds by John Stott

Kingdom Man by Tony Evans

Kingdom Disciples by Tony Evans

In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Todd Adkins and Daniel Im are joined by Art Rainer, author of The Marriage Challenge and Vice President for Institutional Advancement at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. During their conversation, they discuss using your position as a leader to become a better listener and the importance of patience.

BEST QUOTES

“Leadership requires courage.”

“A leader needs to be able to step out and overcome the fear of failure.”

“In order to accomplish something great it takes times and a lot of work.”

“The idea of momentary success that we often attribute to companies and individuals is a complete farce. There are many grueling hours and days and weeks and years and hard work that eventually lead to success.”

“When you are a leader and in a meeting, if you speak first, then you are going to shut down a lot of the good conversation and good ideas that could transpire. Those around the table are going to defer to your particular opinion, which may or may not be the best idea.”

“You have to acknowledge that your idea may not be the best idea.”

“If you don’t receive questions or criticism from your team, do it yourself. Question your assumptions and allow them to speak into that so that they feel the freedom to question your idea.”

“Leadership for me, right now, looks like showing my family what it is like to have a relationship with Christ and demonstrating Christ to them in the way I act.”

“If we find and pursue God’s design for our marriage and our money it can lead to significantly greater purpose, contentment, and oneness in our marriage.”

“I would tell my 20-year-old self to be patient. To not strive to achieve success too early. There is a lot of growth and learning that can occur through the process of becoming a leader.”

RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

Ministrygrid.com

Community of Church Leaders Facebook group

5LQ Episode 167: Art Rainer

The Money Challenge by Art Rainer

The Marriage Challenge by Art Rainer

The ImBetween Podcast

Planet Money Podcast

The Dave Ramsey Show Podcast

The Truth About Money with Ric Edelman Podcast

How I Built This with Guy Raz Podcast

Building a Storybrand by Donald Miller

Parenting by Paul David Tripp

In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Todd Adkins and Daniel Im are joined by Art Rainer, author of The Marriage Challenge and Vice President for Institutional Advancement at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. During their conversation, they discuss using your position as a leader to become a better listener and the importance of patience.

BEST QUOTES

“Leadership requires courage.”

“A leader needs to be able to step out and overcome the fear of failure.”

“In order to accomplish something great it takes times and a lot of work.”

“The idea of momentary success that we often attribute to companies and individuals is a complete farce. There are many grueling hours and days and weeks and years and hard work that eventually lead to success.”

“When you are a leader and in a meeting, if you speak first, then you are going to shut down a lot of the good conversation and good ideas that could transpire. Those around the table are going to defer to your particular opinion, which may or may not be the best idea.”

“You have to acknowledge that your idea may not be the best idea.”

“If you don’t receive questions or criticism from your team, do it yourself. Question your assumptions and allow them to speak into that so that they feel the freedom to question your idea.”

“Leadership for me, right now, looks like showing my family what it is like to have a relationship with Christ and demonstrating Christ to them in the way I act.”

“If we find and pursue God’s design for our marriage and our money it can lead to significantly greater purpose, contentment, and oneness in our marriage.”

“I would tell my 20-year-old self to be patient. To not strive to achieve success too early. There is a lot of growth and learning that can occur through the process of becoming a leader.”

RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

Ministrygrid.com

Community of Church Leaders Facebook group

5LQ Episode 167: Art Rainer

The Money Challenge by Art Rainer

The Marriage Challenge by Art Rainer

The ImBetween Podcast

Planet Money Podcast

The Dave Ramsey Show Podcast

The Truth About Money with Ric Edelman Podcast

How I Built This with Guy Raz Podcast

Building a Storybrand by Donald Miller

Parenting by Paul David Tripp

In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Todd Adkins and Daniel Im are joined by Art Rainer, author of The Marriage Challenge and Vice President for Institutional Advancement at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. During their conversation, they discuss using your position as a leader to become a better listener and the importance of patience.

BEST QUOTES

“Leadership requires courage.”

“A leader needs to be able to step out and overcome the fear of failure.”

“In order to accomplish something great it takes times and a lot of work.”

“The idea of momentary success that we often attribute to companies and individuals is a complete farce. There are many grueling hours and days and weeks and years and hard work that eventually lead to success.”

“When you are a leader and in a meeting, if you speak first, then you are going to shut down a lot of the good conversation and good ideas that could transpire. Those around the table are going to defer to your particular opinion, which may or may not be the best idea.”

“You have to acknowledge that your idea may not be the best idea.”

“If you don’t receive questions or criticism from your team, do it yourself. Question your assumptions and allow them to speak into that so that they feel the freedom to question your idea.”

“Leadership for me, right now, looks like showing my family what it is like to have a relationship with Christ and demonstrating Christ to them in the way I act.”

“If we find and pursue God’s design for our marriage and our money it can lead to significantly greater purpose, contentment, and oneness in our marriage.”

“I would tell my 20-year-old self to be patient. To not strive to achieve success too early. There is a lot of growth and learning that can occur through the process of becoming a leader.”

RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

Ministrygrid.com

Community of Church Leaders Facebook group

5LQ Episode 167: Art Rainer

The Money Challenge by Art Rainer

The Marriage Challenge by Art Rainer

The ImBetween Podcast

Planet Money Podcast

The Dave Ramsey Show Podcast

The Truth About Money with Ric Edelman Podcast

How I Built This with Guy Raz Podcast

Building a Storybrand by Donald Miller

Parenting by Paul David Tripp

In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Todd Adkins and Eric Geiger are joined by Jon Acuff, author of Finish. During their conversation, they discuss curating ideas to be a better leader and vulnerability.

BEST QUOTES

“Perfectionists would rather get a zero than a C. They are an all or nothing people.”

“If I tell you my goal the wrong way, I’m less likely to do it.”

“Social media gives you the high of accomplishing something you haven’t accomplished.”

“Sometimes perfectionism is pretending you don’t have faults or admitting the safe ones.”

“You should be fully vulnerable as a leader with a small group of people who can tell you the truth and say that’s not right.”

“Surround yourself with people whose livelihood isn’t dependent on you, because they can only tell you a percent of the truth.”

“I want my leadership impact to be that people would try things they didn’t think they could do.”

“Your character impacts your skills and impacts your job.”

“If you are a leader, you need to be an idea curator. You don’t have a problem with writer’s block, you have idea bankruptcy.”

“The reason a stranger on a plane can give you advice is because they are so far removed from your orbit.”

“Shock closes ears, surprise opens them.”

“A great sermon is built Monday through Saturday interacting with people and understanding this is what they really need.”

“The start of a sermon isn’t ‘what do I want to preach about?”, it’s ‘what do people need to hear?’ And if I’m not interacting with people I don’t know.”

“If you have stagnant relationships your sermon will reflect that.”

“Starting is fun, but the future belongs to finishers.”

RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

Ministrygrid.com

Finish by Jon Acuff

Do Over by Jon Acuff

Creative Slide podcast

In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Todd Adkins and Eric Geiger are joined by Jon Acuff, author of Finish. During their conversation, they curating ideas to be a better leader and vulnerability.

BEST QUOTES

“Perfectionists would rather get a zero than a C. They are an all or nothing people.”

“If I tell you my goal the wrong way, I’m less likely to do it.”

“Social media gives you the high of accomplishing something you haven’t accomplished.”

“Sometimes perfectionism is pretending you don’t have faults or admitting the safe ones.”

“You should be fully vulnerable as a leader with a small group of people who can tell you the truth and say that’s not right.”

“Surround yourself with people whose livelihood isn’t dependent on you, because they can only tell you a percent of the truth.”

“I want my leadership impact to be that people would try things they didn’t think they could do.”

“Your character impacts your skills and impacts your job.”

“If you are a leader, you need to be an idea curator. You don’t have a problem with writer’s block, you have idea bankruptcy.”

“The reason a stranger on a plane can give you advice is because they are so far removed from your orbit.”

“Shock closes ears, surprise opens them.”

“A great sermon is built Monday through Saturday interacting with people and understanding this is what they really need.”

“The start of a sermon isn’t ‘what do I want to preach about?”, it’s ‘what do people need to hear?’ And if I’m not interacting with people I don’t know.”

“If you have stagnant relationships your sermon will reflect that.”

“Starting is fun, but the future belongs to finishers.”

RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

Ministrygrid.com

Finish by Jon Acuff

Do Over by Jon Acuff

Creative Slide podcast

In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Todd Adkins and Eric Geiger are joined by Jon Acuff, author of Finish. During their conversation, they discuss curating ideas to be a better leader and vulnerability.

BEST QUOTES

“Perfectionists would rather get a zero than a C. They are an all or nothing people.”

“If I tell you my goal the wrong way, I’m less likely to do it.”

“Social media gives you the high of accomplishing something you haven’t accomplished.”

“Sometimes perfectionism is pretending you don’t have faults or admitting the safe ones.”

“You should be fully vulnerable as a leader with a small group of people who can tell you the truth and say that’s not right.”

“Surround yourself with people whose livelihood isn’t dependent on you, because they can only tell you a percent of the truth.”

“I want my leadership impact to be that people would try things they didn’t think they could do.”

“Your character impacts your skills and impacts your job.”

“If you are a leader, you need to be an idea curator. You don’t have a problem with writer’s block, you have idea bankruptcy.”

“The reason a stranger on a plane can give you advice is because they are so far removed from your orbit.”

“Shock closes ears, surprise opens them.”

“A great sermon is built Monday through Saturday interacting with people and understanding this is what they really need.”

“The start of a sermon isn’t ‘what do I want to preach about?”, it’s ‘what do people need to hear?’ And if I’m not interacting with people I don’t know.”

“If you have stagnant relationships your sermon will reflect that.”

“Starting is fun, but the future belongs to finishers.”

RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

Ministrygrid.com

Finish by Jon Acuff

Do Over by Jon Acuff

Creative Slide podcast

In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Todd Adkins and Eric Geiger are joined by author and teacher Priscilla Shirer. During their conversation, they discuss celebrating weakness and what leadership in the home looks like.

BEST QUOTES

“I’m learning a lot about humility. That humility is the key for relationships in families, in working relationships, in ministry. Humility is what lays the framework for effective relationships.”

“Kids can be the best teachers in helping you to see the world in a different light and see yourself more clearly. It’s like staring in a mirror and recognizing there’s some stuff that needs to be straightened out.”

“It might not be perfect, but it’s going to be purposeful, and we are going to do the best we can.”

“On the heels of that correction, there was a conversation about what my father saw could possibly be a gift that God has given me that needs to be molded by God’s Spirit for His purposes.”

“Something else that was caught for me was not disciplining out of anger, but looking at it through the perspective of the Lord. Could it be that this characteristic is unruly in their life could be the thing that God might have put in their life and given me the privilege to help hone to use for His glory?”

“I think that weaknesses are the very thing we should celebrate in a person.”

“Instead of letting someone’s weakness be what makes them feel discouraged, I actually want to highlight it and say, ‘This is the platform on which God’s strength is going to be displayed in your life.’”

“Fear highlights the weakness. It makes your weakness so overwhelming that it will paralyze you so that you never step into the very thing that is the opportunity for God to display His strength.”

“We can’t let guilt keep us from having the intimacy with God we are supposed to have.”

“Often it’s not until I am just outside walking, that a message I’ve been working on, or a paragraph I’ve been trying to finish, or a thought I’ve been trying to make sense of, it doesn’t settle until I stop studying and just go move my body.”

“In prayer, one of my prayers is always, ‘Lord, today will you give me the opportunity to be the answer to someone else’s prayer.’”

“What being a good leader looks like is submitting well to my husband. That’s a hard thing when you have a demonstrative personality like I do.”

“The discipline of being submitted and patient and honoring my husband in that is what leadership looks like to me.”

“I’m grateful to submit to a man who I know is submitted to the authority of someone who has spiritual covering over his life.”

“As a single woman, put yourself in scenarios where you have to be submitted to some spiritual authority in your life, because that’s not a characteristic that jumps on you when you walk down the aisle and say, ‘I do.’”

“Learn how to be a continual learner.”

“Do less talking and more listening and learning because that will make me a better leader in the future.”

“The only way we can be effective as a leader and in that role of mentoring others, is if we listen well, if we have our noses in a book, learning, reading, gleaning from people who are different from us, who have different theological frame of references from us, different denominations from us, different perspectives than ours, different racial backgrounds than ours.”

RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

Ministrygrid.com

The Prince Warriors by Priscilla Shirer

The Prince Warriors and the Unseen Invasion by Priscilla Shirer

In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Todd Adkins and Eric Geiger are joined by author and teacher Priscilla Shirer. During their conversation, they discuss celebrating weakness and what leadership in the home looks like.

BEST QUOTES

“I’m learning a lot about humility. That humility is the key for relationships in families, in working relationships, in ministry. Humility is what lays the framework for effective relationships.”

“Kids can be the best teachers in helping you to see the world in a different light and see yourself more clearly. It’s like staring in a mirror and recognizing there’s some stuff that needs to be straightened out.”

“It might not be perfect, but it’s going to be purposeful, and we are going to do the best we can.”

“On the heels of that correction, there was a conversation about what my father saw could possibly be a gift that God has given me that needs to be molded by God’s Spirit for His purposes.”

“Something else that was caught for me was not disciplining out of anger, but looking at it through the perspective of the Lord. Could it be that this characteristic is unruly in their life could be the thing that God might have put in their life and given me the privilege to help hone to use for His glory?”

“I think that weaknesses are the very thing we should celebrate in a person.”

“Instead of letting someone’s weakness be what makes them feel discouraged, I actually want to highlight it and say, ‘This is the platform on which God’s strength is going to be displayed in your life.’”

“Fear highlights the weakness. It makes your weakness so overwhelming that it will paralyze you so that you never step into the very thing that is the opportunity for God to display His strength.”

“We can’t let guilt keep us from having the intimacy with God we are supposed to have.”

“Often it’s not until I am just outside walking, that a message I’ve been working on, or a paragraph I’ve been trying to finish, or a thought I’ve been trying to make sense of, it doesn’t settle until I stop studying and just go move my body.”

“In prayer, one of my prayers is always, ‘Lord, today will you give me the opportunity to be the answer to someone else’s prayer.’”

“What being a good leader looks like is submitting well to my husband. That’s a hard thing when you have a demonstrative personality like I do.”

“The discipline of being submitted and patient and honoring my husband in that is what leadership looks like to me.”

“I’m grateful to submit to a man who I know is submitted to the authority of someone who has spiritual covering over his life.”

“As a single woman, put yourself in scenarios where you have to be submitted to some spiritual authority in your life, because that’s not a characteristic that jumps on you when you walk down the aisle and say, ‘I do.’”

“Learn how to be a continual learner.”

“Do less talking and more listening and learning because that will make me a better leader in the future.”

“The only way we can be effective as a leader and in that role of mentoring others, is if we listen well, if we have our noses in a book, learning, reading, gleaning from people who are different from us, who have different theological frame of references from us, different denominations from us, different perspectives than ours, different racial backgrounds than ours.”

RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

Ministrygrid.com

The Prince Warriors by Priscilla Shirer

The Prince Warriors and the Unseen Invasion by Priscilla Shirer

The Prince Warriors and the Swords of Rhema by ...