Life & Leadership with Kevin Gerald

Jesus came to earth with one message—the message of the Kingdom. We're currently living in a time of social, racial, and political divide. People feel they must choose sides and fight for those sides. As leaders and Christ-followers, we must always choose the Jesus way. When everyone is fighting for social justice, we must keep fighting for Biblical justice. 

In this timely Podcast episode, Kevin Gerald, Brandon Stewart, and Joshua Bingle continue the conversation on Kingdom Culture. Let's keep having these conversations to strengthen our teams and lead the Jesus way! 

Kingdom Culture can be defined as God's way of doing things. Cancel Culture, on the other hand, is the common practice of withdrawing support from popular figures or companies after they have done something considered objectionable or offensive. Many of us have seen or experienced this in recent times. In this episode we'll unpack the difference between the two and discuss a biblical approach to the culture today. 

Kingdom culture asks for accountability. Cancel culture wants it's cancelation. 

Kingdom culture attributes righteousness. Cancel culture asks for personal atonement. 

Kingdom culture deals with things personally. Cancel culture takes them public. 

Kingdom culture offers a road map to restoration. Cancel culture leaves people for dead. 

As everyone knows, we’re occupying a space in history that is unlike any other. Today we're going to talk about some ways to unify and refocus as a team when the outside world is in chaos and conflict. You can't control people, but you can protect your heart, get close as a team, and unite around the Jesus way. 

We sat down with Pastors Kevin Gerald and Earl McClellan to begin a much needed conversation about race. As leaders, we all need to be having these conversations right now. Listen with your team, then open the door for discussion. Church teams and leaders, we are praying for you!

Life is not going to return to the way it was before Coronavirus hit, but there is an opportunity in all of this. As leaders we need to start asking ourselves, "how do we start looking into the future instead of reverting back to the past?" In this Podcast episode, Kevin Gerald shares how this is our time to be innovative as we step into the new life in front of us. 

In this special episode we recorded during the Coronavirus, we'll hear from Pastors Kevin and Sheila Gerald a talk specifically for everyone leading during this time. We've never faced something quite like this and we want to help you lead strong as we navigate this season. It's so important for you to be confident in your leadership during this season of uncertainty. Uncertainty can be the hardest time to lead. People are unsure what to do and how to do it. We want to talk about 5 things that position you as a confident leader in your organization.

In this month’s Team Church Podcast, we're continuing with Part 3 of the Naked and Unafraid message for leaders. The focus for this episode is on criticism versus critique. We will begin by talking about how powerful criticism can be and the importance of not avoiding it. We'll break down the differences between the two, and show you how to overcome critics while welcoming critique. We'll even talk about David’s secret sauce to overcoming this battle. By the end of this talk you'll learn to recognize the difference between the two, and if you grab a hold of this, it will have a huge impact on your life and how you live it. 

If you’ve ever been afraid to fail, nervous about rejection, worried about what others think, or anything that could cause you to fence yourself in, then this conversation is for you! We'll continue talking through Pastor Kevin’s new book and today we discuss abandoning smallness. In Corinthians, Paul talks about living a wide-open, spacious life—one where we’re not fenced in and can live freely. 

In this month’s podcast, get an inside look at Pastor Kevin’s new book, Naked and Unafraid—5 Keys to Abandon Smallness, Overcome Criticism, and Be All That You Were Meant to Be. The book is based out of the story of King David dancing in the street while his wife was watching from the window criticizing him. We all have the choice to be a street dancer or a window watcher. Pastor Kevin talks about the release of his new book, gives examples of what it looks like when a team is leading from a place of internal smallness (9:06), what the bigger me sounds like (15:06), risking exposure (19:00), being vulnerable (23:36), and telling us what street dancing looks like on our teams (24:50). 

Every person, every leader, will find themselves in a season of transition at some point. It’s important that we get this right when the time comes. In this episode, we'll discuss the keys to positive transitions.