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Welcome to Lead Now the podcast for the Texas Baptist Center for effective leadership. For months we've been hearing about mid term elections with elections even just around the corner people in our church is bound to be talking about their political ___ and their frustration. While trying to be ___ in the Roman practical way it can become difficult to address current issues in our churches without becoming involved(?) in political debate that can divide our churches. Especially when it's the voting season. Steven Reeves legislative counsel for the Christian Life Commission of Texas Baptist is with us this week to help us navigate this treacherous matters. Thanks for joining Steven. Thank you Emily. So Steven if pastors want to be relevant why wouldn't they wanna preach about a coming election on a Sunday morning? Well Emily I think they might wanna preach about political issues and I think that when we look at the life and teaching of Christ much of

Welcome to lead now. The pod cast and the Texas Baptist center for effective leadership. Each week we answer your leadership questions and challenges as we are joint by our special guest. This week we've heard from a lot of you that your church's begin new programs, emphasis(?), classes and activities every fall. Still activity isn't necessarily a measure of effectiveness. Given the number of churches that are in decline it can become more reasons administers that their churches aren't headed in the right direction. Still if you have this one to resort this solely numerical measures of effectiveness. This week Ron(?) Harrin(?) director of the center for effective leadership is here to share with us his insight on measuring a church effectiveness and knowing that we're moving in the right direction. Thanks for joining us Ron. I say to be with you Emily. Ron our center has the word effective right at the heart of it's purposes. Can you help our ministers identify some ways base in determine.

Welcome to Lead Now the pod cast of the Texas Baptist Center for effective leadership. With the economy logging and church budget plem(?) more of you have found it difficult to find full time ministry position. Others of you have mentioned that things at your church are just particularly difficult right now. When times are tough and no door seem to open it can be easy to begin to question God's calling in our life. This week Dennis Horton associate director of ministry guidance at Baler University is with us to help us explore this question. Thanks for joining us Dennis. Good to be here. Dennis you work with a lot of students and young ministers who are exploring their calling. When you hear ministers struggling to understand their calling in the midst of difficult circumstances what advice would you give them. Ministry leadership is rarely easy. Sometime it is extremely difficult. During these times of extreme difficulty ministers may wonder