5LQ Episode 434: Clayton King

In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Todd Adkins and Chandler Vannoy are joined by Clayton King, is a speaker, author, pastor at NewSpring Church, and founder of Crossroads Ministries. They discuss fulfilling God's call on your life and pursuing friendships.

BEST QUOTES

"If I'm not communicating on a stage and on a page, then I am not actually fulfilling God's call on my life.""I am going to have to answer to God for what I did with the gifts that He put in me.""This covid season has given us a great opportunity to come together as a team.""I am trying to take inventory of everything in my life that I have been doing and was doing up to the point of the pandemic.""What was I doing that I could not do and not miss that would free up space and capacity in my life to do things that I absolutely cannot live without?""I want to have kids and grandkids that love Jesus, in part, because they saw me love Jesus and they saw me allow Jesus to love me.""In order for me to have a friend, I have to be a friend.""For guys, we have to schedule our lives in ways that we can have close friendships.""Getting up early in the morning has been the secret to my relationship with Jesus, my wife, my kids, and the ability to get things done in ministry that need to be accomplished.""My number one leadership commitment in my home is that we will make these decisions together as a team.""Ultimately we were created for Jesus and ministry is a small blip on the screen of eternity.""If you are too big for the small things, then you are too small for the big things."

RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

Lifeway Leadership Podcast Network

Lifeway.com/CoronaVirus

Crossroads Summer Camp

Clayton King Ministries

Reborn by Clayton King

Paul: A Biography by N.T. Wright

This episode's sponsor: For more than 25 years, Portable Church® has helped thousands of churches launch strong and thrive in a mobile setting. They design custom solutions that fit each budget, vision, and venue. Everything you need to launch a mobile church — an inviting worship space, kids ministry areas, welcome spaces, storage cases, etc — all in a system refined to make it fast, easy & fun for the weekly volunteer teams.