Church Explained

Welcome to the Church Explained Podcast, where we have conversations to help you grow your leadership and build your church. In this brief episode, David and Nathan reflect on the podcast's purpose and share some highlights from the past season. They also discuss IKON Open, a free resource site where churches can access hundreds of resources on messages, creative/ worship, kids, youth, and leadership.

We have created an Easter giveaway you won't want to miss to show our appreciation to one of our listeners. Listen to the end of the show (timestamp 8:40) to learn how to participate.

Enjoy!

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A SHORT BIO ABOUT STEVE & RACHEL

Steve and Rachel Mawston are passionate about the Church and have devoted their whole lives to following the call of God, building His house and the lives of others. 

Currently, they are based in Soul Church in Norwich, England, with their life-long friends and Senior Pastors, Jon and Chantel Norman. They are part of the senior leadership team and have seen this dynamic Church grow numerically and in influence.

We hope you enjoy it.

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A SHORT BIO

I have been married to my wife Julie for 23 years. Pastor of Relevant Church just south of Atlanta, GA. It started in 2010 with five people; now, we have 3,000 regularly attending.

In part two of our conversation, Carl Nichols from Relevant Church shares some insightful ideas on how to build a healthy church culture. He emphasises that the last 5% of what we do is just as important as the first 95% of our efforts to achieve excellence.

We hope you enjoy it.

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A SHORT BIO

I have been married to my wife Julie for 23 years. Pastor of Relevant Church just south of Atlanta, GA. It started in 2010 with five people; now, we have 3,000 regularly attending.

In part one of our conversations, Carl Nichols from Relevant Church shares six things he has learned in times of crisis that are helping many churches and leaders prepare before a crisis occurs.

We hope you enjoy it.

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Join us in this behind-the-scenes (BTS) staff talk from Ikon Church with lead pastor Paul Benger. In this episode, Paul shares with some of the staff on how we can ‘Calm the Ego’.

This includes questions and discussions with staff members.

We hope you enjoy it.

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A short bio about Joy

 With a heart for the restoration and transformation of cities through the mobilisation of the local Church, Joy oversees Social Justice and Influence at Alive Church, a multi-site church in the East of England, and is the Location Pastor of Alive Lincoln North as well as one of the core leaders of the Groundlevel Network of churches. 

Joy is the founding Director of Acts Trust: a Lincoln-based charity connected to Alive, with a mission to empower people to end poverty; she co-leads Transform Lincoln: the unity movement of churches in Lincoln. 

Joy is a qualified leadership and life coach, a civic commissioner in Lincoln's recently formed poverty truth commission and a trustee of CAP UK.

In our conversation with Joy, we explore how we can transform our towns and cities through meaningful connections. Plus how we create disciples who make disciples and much more.

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A short bio about Paul

Paul is married with two sons, 3-yr and 7-mo, and works as an aerospace engineer for a US defence contractor, specialising in experimental helicopters. 

About nine years ago, he started serving as his Church’s treasurer. After an “enlightening” conversation with his pastor, he developed the financial and accounting systems they are still using today. 

Paul hosts the Mission Driven Budget Podcast to help church leaders eliminate financial stress and generously fund their Church’s mission. 

In part two, we continue the conversation with Paul exploring why church leaders need to make sure they have a healthy view of money personally, or it could impact the church or organisation they lead.

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In this episode, we explore with Paul the nuts and bolts of having a healthy framework for the church budget. Paul shares out of his ten-plus years of experience both in the church setting and from his role as an engineer in aerospace, leading people, projects and financial resources.

A short bio about Paul

Paul is married with two sons, 3-yr and 7-mo, and works as an aerospace engineer for a US defence contractor, specialising in experimental helicopters. 

About nine years ago, he started serving as his Church’s treasurer. After an “enlightening” conversation with his pastor, he developed the financial and accounting systems they are still using today. 

Paul hosts the Mission Driven Budget Podcast to help church leaders eliminate financial stress and generously fund their Church’s mission. 

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Welcome to Season 3, Episode: 05 of the Church Explained Podcast with guest Paul Derek Smith.

In this episode, we explore with Derek, who is the lead pastor at Kings Church in Bolton, UK, all about:

Multisite Church - its strengths and weaknesses

Developing new leaders - finding the genius in others

Transition - how to do this well

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Welcome to Season 3, Episode: 04 of the Church Explained Podcast with guest Paul Benger.

We are glad you have joined us to experience something brand new for this season. Over the next while, we will include some behind-the-scenes (BTS) staff talks from Ikon Church.

These include vital ideas we are working on and thinking about as a church at the moment. In this episode, Paul shares why we need to have a 'who is next' culture and what happens when we don't have one.

We hope you enjoy it.

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We help leaders find solutions by our

1. LEADERSHIP COACHING

2. FREE LEADERSHIP AND CHURCH RESOURCES

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