Let's Talk Church for Pastors and Ministry Leaders

Every pastor/missionary has dealt with discouragement at some point or another. It comes with the ministry territory. What are the early warning signs of discouragement...and how can we avoid the traps that discouragement will lay in our ministry path?

Often we must minister to others even though we are suffering personally. In this episode we talk about the importance of casting your care on the Lord as you minister through personal difficulty.

God uses his church to accomplish the work of the ministry...and often that involves God's people giving to make it happen! How can pastors foster a culture of giving? In this episode we look at incredible principles from Joseph's life on the importance of good stewardship...and how Joseph motivated others to save for the future!

There are so many angles of pastoral ministry that Satan can use to bring doubt and discouragement into our lives. Listen in as I sit down with 5 pastors and missionaries and we talk about doubt and discouragement in ministry.

Sometimes there are changes that need to take place in your church. The ease of that change depends of course on your people, your church, and the type of change. Some changes are easy…or at least should be easy. But there are some changes that come from deep within the church….cultural changes. In this episode, Bob and I talk about changing the culture of discipleship in the local church.

This is the second part of an interview with Pastor Justus on the developing transparency and trust in church business. Pastor Justus gives great advice...this is well worth the listen for any pastor!

Church business meetings can be tense, difficult....and sometime we would like to avoid them all together. That is not God's plan! God desires that his people dwell together in unity! In this episode we talk about the pastoral task of uniting the congregation so that church business meetings honor the Lord as opposed to exposing strife that is under the surface.

There is no better time to establish a disciple-making mentality within the local church than during those initial groundwork years of the church's growth. Pastor Will Cover discusses the importance of developing a focus on discipleship in church planting.

We are sharpened by our peers...but should receive counsel from our elders. There is great wisdom in seeking out Godly older men and learning from their ministry. In this episode, we look at wisdom from Scripture and concerning counsel and encourage younger pastors to value the ministry of older pastors.

Ten years into missions work the Greenwood’s realized that their path was leading them nowhere....and things needed to change. This is the story of how God led them down that path of personal ministry philosophy change!