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Leading Ideas Talks episodes

  • Episode 21: “The Greatest One Minute Manager of All Time” featuring Ken Blanchard
     
    How can we lead like Jesus? In this episode, thought leader Dr. Ken Blanchard shares insights with Lewis Center Director Douglas Powe about being a servant leader.
    Related Resources
      • Discovering God’s Future for Your Church Video Tool Kit
      • Ten Traits of Jesus as Transformational Leader by Ed Stetzer and Thom S. Raine
      • Jesus’ Lessons for Leading by Bill Wilson
      • The New One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson M.D., available at Amazon
        • 34 min
      • Episode 20: “Ministry Beyond the Wall: Revisiting the Five Fruitful Practices” featuring Robert Schnase
         
        How can congregations more effectively practice fruitful ministry? In this episode Bishop Robert Schnase discusses his revised book, Five Practices of Fruitful Congregations, with Lewis Center Director F. Douglas Powe.
        Related Resources
          • Taking Church to the Community Video Tool Kit
          • Theology Of Stewardship And Biblical Generosity Video Tool Kit
          • Five Practices of Fruitful Congregations, Revised and Updated (Abingdon Press, 2018) by Robert Schnase, available at Cokesbury and Amazon.
            • 38 min
          • Episode 19: “Dying to Restart: Choosing a Strategic Death for a Resurrected Life” featuring Dan Turner
             
            Why would a church discontinue its ministry to start a new one in the same place? In this episode Dan Turner speaks with Lewis Center Associate Director Ann A. Michel about how his Washington, DC, church chose to do just that to become a more fruitful congregation.
            Related Resources
              • Taking Church to the Community Video Tool Kit
              • Closing a Congregation as an Act of Faithfulness by Lee Ann M. Pomrenke
              • The Case of a Small Church in an Oversized Building by Lewis A. Parks
              • 5 Lies We Like to Tell About Church Growth by Dan Hotchkiss
                • 35 min
              • Episode 18: “Franklin Planner Creator Hyrum Smith Shares Principles for Leading with Purpose”
                 
                What leadership lessons help make you more effective? In this episode Hyrum Smith, creator of the Franklin Planner, speaks with Lewis Center Director Doug Powe about leading with purpose as well as practical, transformational leadership lessons.
                Related Resources
                  • Discovering God’s Future for Your Church Video Tool Kit
                  • Take the Next Step: Leading Lasting Change in the Church by Lovett H. Weems, Jr.
                    • 39 min
                  • Episode 17: “The Transformative Power of Church-School Partnerships” featuring Jake McGlothin
                     
                    Thinking of launching a church-school partnership? Or looking to strengthen an existing partnership? In this episode Jake McGlothin, author of The Mission-Minded Guide to Church and School Partnerships, speaks with Lewis Center Associate Director Ann A. Michel about how churches can build effective, transformative relationships with children and teachers in their community.
                    Related Resources
                      • Engaging Local Schools Video Tool Kit
                      • 50 Ways to Engage Local Schools, a free resource from the Lewis Center
                      • Effective Church-School Partnerships by Nicole Baker Fulgham 
                      • 4 Tips for Launching a Church-School Partnership by Ann A. Michel
                        • 36 min
                      • Episode 16: “Women and the Power Dynamics of Leadership” featuring Susan Beaumont
                         
                        Why do women leaders sometimes struggle with using their power and influence? Listen as Lewis Center Associate Director Ann Michel speaks with church consultant Susan Beaumont about how women leaders can learn to use power constructively in leadership relationships.
                        Related Resources
                        • 5 Ways Female Leaders Undermine Themselves by Susan Beaumont
                        • Church Leadership: Vision, Team, Culture, Integrity by Lovett H. Weems, Jr.
                        • Do Male and Female Pastors Lead Differently? by Lovett H. Weems, Jr.
                          • 36 min
                        • Episode 15: “Leading in Small Church or Multi-Church Settings” featuring Lew Parks
                           
                          Are you a pastor serving more than one church? Or a leader in a congregation that’s part of a multi-church ministry? Listen as Lewis Center Director F. Douglas Powe speaks with Dr. Lew Parks, a small church vitality expert. They explore perspectives and practices that can help ministry flourish even in a church that doesn’t have its own pastor — or a pastor who doesn’t serve just one church.
                          Related Resources
                          • 2 Churches — 1 Pastor by Lewis A. Parks
                          • Eleven Characteristics of Effective Smaller Churches by David R. Ray
                          • A New Way to View Vitality in Smaller Congregations by Lewis A. Parks
                          • Intergenerational Ministry and the Small Church by Brandon J. O’Brien

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                            40 min
                          • Episode 14: “Divergent Church” featuring Tim Shapiro and Kara Faris
                             
                            Does your church have the “church plus” factor? Listen as Lewis Center Director Doug Powe speaks with Tim Shapiro and Kara Faris about their book Divergent Church. They examine innovative, alternative faith communities that combine religious practice with a “church plus” factor — a dedicated focus on some unique aspect of their church’s cultural DNA like gardening, table fellowship, artistic expression, and more.
                            Related Resources
                            • The Bright Promise of Alternative Faith Communities by Ann A. Michel
                            •  “PCUSA faith community takes flight, celebrating Appalachian music and culture.” Faith and Leadership. May 15, 2018.
                            • Networks and Third Places are Today’s Mission Field by Ken Carter and Audrey Warren
                            • The Possibilities of Fresh Expressions, a Leading Ideas Talks podcast episode featuring Ken Carter and Audrey Warren

                              • 35 min
                            • Episode 13: “Dream Big to Reach New People” featuring Olu Brown
                               
                              How can dreaming big help your church reach more people? In this episode Lewis Center Director F. Douglas Powe, Jr., speaks with Rev. Olu Brown of Impact Church in Atlanta about how to creatively reach new people through extreme hospitality and by dreaming big.
                              Related Resources
                              • Reaching People Who Don’t Look or Act Like “Church People” by Olu Brown
                              • The New Welcome Video Tool Kit
                              • “50 Ways to Welcome New People,” a free Lewis Center resource
                              • Organizing a Missional COMMUNITY by Doug Powe And Henry H. Knight III
                                • 37 min
                              • Episode 12: “Sacred Resistance” featuring Ginger Gaines-Cirelli
                                 
                                How can churches grow beyond simply engaging in political activism and instead practice “sacred resistance?” In this episode Lewis Center Associate Director Ann A. Michel speaks with Ginger Gaines-Cirelli, pastor of Foundry United Methodist Church in downtown Washington, DC, about sacred resistance as a way of being grounded in the gospel and about who we are as people of faith.
                                Related Resources
                                • 4 Tips for Preaching on Politically Charged Topics by Ginger Gaines-Cirelli
                                • 4 Opportunities for the Church in the Current Political Tension by Carey Nieuwhof
                                • 10 Things Great Preachers Do Differently by Charley Reeb
                                • Taking Church to the Community Video Tool Kit
                                  • 44 min

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