FrontStage BackStage with Jason Daye - Healthy Leadership for Life and Ministry

If you're looking for opportunities to remove some of the pressures of pastoring while still honoring God and being faithful in your ministry, then this conversation is for you. In this episode of FrontStage BackStage, host Jason Daye is joined by Richard Stearns, president emeritus of World Vision, as they discuss the gift of value-driven leadership that can transform your life and ministry.

Dig deeper into this conversation: Find the free Weekly Toolkit, including the Ministry Leaders Growth Guide, all resource links, and more at http://PastorServe.org/network

Some key takeaways from this conversation:
Rich Stearns on success-driven culture: "We are breathing this colorless, odorless gas of success that we almost don't even notice, because it's just everywhere. And then you have to ask the fundamental question, Does God care if we're successful? Does he want us to be successful? Or is there something else?"

Rich Stearns on trusting God with the outcomes: “Once you've surrendered the outcomes...it's very liberating. It's very freeing, because it no longer depends on me. God is just calling me to be faithful, to take the gifts and talents he's given me and to use them with diligence, and do the best I can.”

Rich Stearns on balance in life and ministry: "You need balance in your life. You need time with your family, you need time to recharge your batteries, you need to delegate things to other people made in the image of God who are gifted and called. You have to extract yourself from certain decisions and certain meetings and say, I'm just going to trust the people around me to do it."

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Looking to dig more deeply into this topic and conversation? FrontStage BackStage is much more than another church leadership show, it is a complete resource to help you and your ministry leaders grow. Every week we go the extra mile and create a free toolkit so you and your ministry team can dive deeper into the topic that is discussed.

Visit http://PastorServe.org/network to find the entire Weekly Toolkit, including the Ministry Leaders Growth Guide (Our team pulls key insights and quotes from every conversation with our amazing guests. We also create engaging questions for you and your team to consider and process, providing space for you to reflect on how that episode's topic relates to your unique church context. Use these questions in your regular staff meetings, or other settings, to guide your conversation as you invest in the growth of your ministry leaders.)

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Looking to dig more deeply into this topic and conversation? FrontStage BackStage is much more than another church leadership show, it is a complete resource to help you and your ministry leaders grow. Every week we go the extra mile and create a free toolkit so you and your ministry team can dive deeper into the topic that is discussed.

Visit http://PastorServe.org/network to find the Weekly Toolkit, including the Ministry Leaders Growth Guide. Our team pulls key insights and quotes from every conversation with our guests. We also create engaging questions for you and your team to consider and process, providing space for you to reflect on how each episode's topic relates to your unique church context. Use these questions in your staff meetings, or other settings, to guide your conversation as you invest in the growth of your ministry leaders.

Love well, live well, & lead well

Complimentary Coaching Session for Pastors http://PastorServe.org/freesession

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Pastors are people, too, and can struggle with doubt and depression. On today's episode, I have an amazing conversation with Diana Groover, author of Companions in the Darkness, as we look at encouragement for pastors who are wrestling with depression, and creating safe spaces, so we can effectively minister to others who are struggling as well.

Dig deeper into this conversation: Find the free Weekly Toolkit, including the Ministry Leaders Growth Guide, all resource links, and more at http://PastorServe.org/network

Some key takeaways from this conversation:

Diana Gruver on pastors with depression, etc, getting the help they need: “I think, especially for those of us who are in a ministry leadership position, we try to push through and plow through and just shove it all down. And the more you cram that stuff down, the more explosive it's going to be when you can't contain it anymore. So get the help that you need. The professional help that you need, the community help that you need to try to support you in that journey.”

Diana Gruver on assessing our church culture related to people experiencing pain: "How does our church culture feel in general, not just specifically about mental illness, but about pain? Do we have a culture where people feel like they need to show up to church with a smile plastered on acting like they have to have it all together? Or is it a space that people know that they can come struggling or hurting, and not be met with cliches, not be met with judgment, but just be surrounded by support?"

Diana Gruver on depression and our spiritual life: “I don't think depression is a reflection on someone's spiritual life, right? It affects our spiritual life. But being depressed does not mean that we don't have enough faith, we're not taking spiritual discipline seriously enough, or any of these types of things. And I think that's one of the most unhelpful things that comes up, is whenever someone struggles in this way, or they feel in the midst of depression, that sense of God's absence, or it's harder to pray. Sometimes you get these cliches that just feed the stigma that if you just try harder, if you just have more faith, if you just prayed more, you could wiggle your way out of where you are. And I just don't think that's the case."

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Looking to dig more deeply into this topic and conversation? FrontStage BackStage is much more than another church leadership show, it is a complete resource to help you and your ministry leaders grow. Every week we go the extra mile and create a free toolkit so you and your ministry team can dive deeper into the topic that is discussed.

Visit http://PastorServe.org/network to find the entire Weekly Toolkit, including the Ministry Leaders Growth Guide (Our team pulls key insights and quotes from every conversation with our amazing guests. We also create engaging questions for you and your team to consider and process, providing space for you to reflect on how that episode's topic relates to your unique church context. Use these questions in your regular staff meetings, or other settings, to guide your conversation as you invest in the growth of your ministry leaders.)

Love well, live well, and lead well
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Complimentary 1-hour Coaching Session for Pastors http://PastorServe.org/freesession
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Follow PastorServe
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Facebook
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Connect with Jason Daye
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Looking to dig more deeply into this topic and conversation? FrontStage BackStage is much more than another church leadership show, it is a complete resource to help you and your ministry leaders grow. Every week we go the extra mile and create a free toolkit so you and your ministry team can dive deeper into the topic that is discussed.

Visit http://PastorServe.org/network to find the Weekly Toolkit, including the Ministry Leaders Growth Guide. Our team pulls key insights and quotes from every conversation with our guests. We also create engaging questions for you and your team to consider and process, providing space for you to reflect on how each episode's topic relates to your unique church context. Use these questions in your staff meetings, or other settings, to guide your conversation as you invest in the growth of your ministry leaders.

Love well, live well, & lead well

Complimentary Coaching Session for Pastors http://PastorServe.org/freesession

Follow PastorServe LinkedIn | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

Connect with Jason Daye LinkedIn | Instagram

How can we experience the work of the Spirit fully in our lives and hear God's voice? In this week's conversation on FrontStage BackStage, host Jason Daye is joined by Pete Greig, founder of the 24/7 Prayer movement, as we discussed what it means to hear God and share what He is speaking with others.

Dig deeper into this conversation: Find the free Weekly Toolkit, including the Ministry Leaders Growth Guide, all resource links, and more at http://PastorServe.org/network

Some key takeaways from this conversation:
Pete Greig on our role as pastors: "Our job as pastors is not to quell the Spirit speaking to and through our people, it is to help them to steward that”

Pete Greig on helping develop disciples to hear God's voice: "To be a disciple is to be attuned to the acoustics, the nuance, the tone of God. So that, if we're going to raise disciples, they will be people who really know how to hear God"

Pete Greig on the work of a pastor and the complexities of how God is speaking: "So we don't get the luxury of stepping back, going, well, you know, I'm just not going to prophesy so that I can only have the 'real' word of God. Wrong. All of us are having to wrestle with the complexities of what is God saying? How do we make sense of the living Jesus Christ? The written word of God? The ways God speaks supernaturally? How do we make sense of that in a complex, fast-moving cultural context? And in many ways, that is the work of a pastor.”

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Looking to dig more deeply into this topic and conversation? FrontStage BackStage is much more than another church leadership show, it is a complete resource to help you and your ministry leaders grow. Every week we go the extra mile and create a free toolkit so you and your ministry team can dive deeper into the topic that is discussed.

Visit http://PastorServe.org/network to find the entire Weekly Toolkit, including the Ministry Leaders Growth Guide (Our team pulls key insights and quotes from every conversation with our amazing guests. We also create engaging questions for you and your team to consider and process, providing space for you to reflect on how that episode's topic relates to your unique church context. Use these questions in your regular staff meetings, or other settings, to guide your conversation as you invest in the growth of your ministry leaders.)

Love well, live well, and lead well 
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Complimentary 1-hour Coaching Session for Pastors http://PastorServe.org/freesession
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Follow PastorServe
LinkedIn
Twitter
Instagram
Facebook 
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Connect with Jason Daye
LinkedIn
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Looking to dig more deeply into this topic and conversation? FrontStage BackStage is much more than another church leadership show, it is a complete resource to help you and your ministry leaders grow. Every week we go the extra mile and create a free toolkit so you and your ministry team can dive deeper into the topic that is discussed.

Visit http://PastorServe.org/network to find the Weekly Toolkit, including the Ministry Leaders Growth Guide. Our team pulls key insights and quotes from every conversation with our guests. We also create engaging questions for you and your team to consider and process, providing space for you to reflect on how each episode's topic relates to your unique church context. Use these questions in your staff meetings, or other settings, to guide your conversation as you invest in the growth of your ministry leaders.

Love well, live well, & lead well

Complimentary Coaching Session for Pastors http://PastorServe.org/freesession

Follow PastorServe LinkedIn | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

Connect with Jason Daye LinkedIn | Instagram

What exactly do we mean by front stage and backstage? And why is it important to us as pastors? In this week's conversation on FrontStage BackStage, host Jason Daye is joined by Jimmy Dodd, founder of PastorServe, and he shares how we can be intentional about having a well-balanced life and ministry.

Complimentary 1-hour Coaching Session for Pastors http://PastorServe.org/freesession

Some key takeaways from this conversation:
Jimmy Dodd on pastors and isolation: "So I think that there are so many pastors who have been driven to a place of isolation, and it's just out of fear. Because they have a strong front stage... they're well-spoken on the front stage, and they can build a church that looks to be very strong, and yet their heart has massive issues”

Jimmy Dodd on the Gospel: "That's the gospel right there: I'm worse than I think, I'm more broken than I will ever admit, and yet Jesus loves me more than I will ever comprehend.”

Jimmy Dodd on pastors getting beyond the production mentality for God: “So I just believe as pastors, if we could just wake up in the morning, and say the goal is not to work hard all throughout this day, so that at the end of the day, I hear from God, 'hey, I'm so proud of you.' God is proud of you right now, and today is a response to him.”
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Looking to dig more deeply into this topic and conversation? FrontStage BackStage is much more than another church leadership show, it is a complete resource to help you and your ministry leaders grow. Every week we go the extra mile and create a free toolkit so you and your ministry team can dive deeper into the topic that is discussed.

Visit http://PastorServe.org/network to find the entire Weekly Toolkit, including the Ministry Leaders Growth Guide (Our team pulls key insights and quotes from every conversation with our amazing guests. We also create engaging questions for you and your team to consider and process, providing space for you to reflect on how that episode's topic relates to your unique church context. Use these questions in your regular staff meetings, or other settings, to guide your conversation as you invest in the growth of your ministry leaders.)

Love well, live well, and lead well 

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Complimentary 1-hour Coaching Session for Pastors http://PastorServe.org/freesession
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Follow PastorServe
LinkedIn
Twitter
Instagram
Facebook
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Connect with Jason Daye
LinkedIn
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Looking to dig more deeply into this topic and conversation? FrontStage BackStage is much more than another church leadership show, it is a complete resource to help you and your ministry leaders grow. Every week we go the extra mile and create a free toolkit so you and your ministry team can dive deeper into the topic that is discussed.

Visit http://PastorServe.org/network to find the Weekly Toolkit, including the Ministry Leaders Growth Guide. Our team pulls key insights and quotes from every conversation with our guests. We also create engaging questions for you and your team to consider and process, providing space for you to reflect on how each episode's topic relates to your unique church context. Use these questions in your staff meetings, or other settings, to guide your conversation as you invest in the growth of your ministry leaders.

Love well, live well, & lead well

Complimentary Coaching Session for Pastors http://PastorServe.org/freesession

Follow PastorServe LinkedIn | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

Connect with Jason Daye LinkedIn | Instagram

As pastors, how can we best embrace healthy, well-balanced leadership for our life and ministry? Join PastorServe executive, Jason Daye, every week as he invites insightful church leaders into a conversation to explore this very question. Jason knows, firsthand, the challenges of being a pastor and the importance of developing a sustainable rhythm for life and ministry. Each episode helps equip pastors, just like you, with a faithful balance across both your more public FrontStage, and your more personal BackStage, so you can thrive in all areas of life.

But FrontStage BackStage is much more than another church leadership podcast, it is a complete resource to help you and your ministry leaders grow. Every week we go the extra mile and create a free downloadable toolkit so you and your ministry team can dive deeper into the topic that is discussed. We are grateful for the opportunity to play a part in your ongoing ministry, encouraging you to serve and live in healthy and sustainable ways.

So join us as, together, we learn to love well, live well, and lead well.  

Learn more and download the free weekly toolkit at PastorServe.org/network

Looking to dig more deeply into this topic and conversation? FrontStage BackStage is much more than another church leadership show, it is a complete resource to help you and your ministry leaders grow. Every week we go the extra mile and create a free toolkit so you and your ministry team can dive deeper into the topic that is discussed.

Visit http://PastorServe.org/network to find the Weekly Toolkit, including the Ministry Leaders Growth Guide. Our team pulls key insights and quotes from every conversation with our guests. We also create engaging questions for you and your team to consider and process, providing space for you to reflect on how each episode's topic relates to your unique church context. Use these questions in your staff meetings, or other settings, to guide your conversation as you invest in the growth of your ministry leaders.

Love well, live well, & lead well

Complimentary Coaching Session for Pastors http://PastorServe.org/freesession

Follow PastorServe LinkedIn | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

Connect with Jason Daye LinkedIn | Instagram