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October 26, 2020Episode 538: Creating Equippers
In Episode 538 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Todd discuss why it is important to be an equipper who develops equippers.
“My team is full of doers, not equippers. What do I do?”
In This Episode, You’ll Discover:
Where to start in shifting from doing to equipping
The difference between A players and B players
Shareable Quotes (#NewChurches):
“You reproduce what you are. So if you are a doer, you are going to reproduce doers.” – @toddadkins
“Audit your story of what your church is about and what your specific ministry is about and how you develop people.” – @toddadkins
“People have to have a heart shift as much as a mind shift.” – @toddadkins
“It’s up to them to think about who they are recruiting and they have to put a plan together for themselves on their own personal development.” – @toddadkins
“Understand what the competencies are of an A player and get working on that.” – @toddadkins
“The first step is recognizing that and saying what is my development plan in light of that.” – @danielsangi
“People don’t quit organizations, they quit leaders.” – @toddadkins
Recommended Resources:
Listen to Episode 534: Rebuilding Culture After COVID
Listen to Episode 536: Raising Up Coaches
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October 22, 2020Episode 537: Brian Sanders on Micro Church Planting
In Episode 537 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel introduces a conversation with Brian Sanders on micro church planting.
In This Episode, You’ll Discover:
If bigger churches are better than smaller churches
Core competencies that are required
Shareable Quotes (#NewChurches):
“As Americans, we do tend to believe that bigger must be better, and I think that is probably an erroneous assumption.” – @BSunderground
“We wouldn’t be hiring and assessing and coaching church planters, we would be hiring and assessing and coaching missionaries.” – @BSunderground
“The executive function is now servants, not dictatorial direction giving.” – @BSunderground
“Where I’ve seen traditional-form churches try to integrate these ideas, there is always some resistance to that.” – @BSunderground
“Natural servants can learn leadership, but natural leaders struggle to really authentically integrate servanthood.” – @BSunderground
“Coaching is a new core competency.” – @BSunderground
“It can be a false pursuit of diversity and reconciliation when you just say let’s have a lot of people who are different in the same room, but the people who are running the show and who decide literally everything are one kind of people.” – @BSunderground
“In micro church planting the key is we are not creating subsidiaries or franchises all for one brand, we are really creating an ecosystem where autonomous people with real agency to do what they want to express and be the church.” @BSunderground
Recommended Resources:
Learn more about CPLF
Read Microchurches by Brian Sanders
Read Underground Church by Brian Sanders
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October 19, 2020Episode 536: Raising Up Coaches
In Episode 536 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Todd discuss raising up coaches through the leadership pipeline.
“I don’t have enough coaches. What do I do?”
In This Episode, You’ll Discover:
Why coaches are important
When it is time to add coaches to your ministries
Shareable Quotes (#NewChurches):
“Eighty percent of the time that there is a a structural issue, it’s because they don’t have coaches or leaders of leaders in place.” – @toddadkins
“You can’t raise somebody up to that coaching level properly unless you define what that role is and what the competencies of that level are.” – @toddadkins
“Coaches should recruit and develop coaches, not you.” – @toddadkins
“Look at their judgment when it comes to crisis.” – @toddadkins
“Are they prioritizing the right things with their time? Hopefully they are using some of their time to develop people.” – @toddadkins
“Oftentimes churches under 500 won’t have a lot of coaches, because their pipeline is going to be four levels: volunteer, leader, ministry director, and senior leader.” – @danielsangi
“There are a set of skills and competencies for the coach, and it is often the small groups area that will need that first.” – @danielsangi
Recommended Resources:
Watch 90 Second Leadership: Four Judgments of Leadership Placement
Take the Leadership Pipeline course on Ministry Grid
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October 15, 2020Episode 535: Knowing Your Leadership Limits
In Episode 535 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Ed discuss what to do when you feel like you’ve reached the limit of your ability to lead.
In This Episode, You’ll Discover:
If it is possible to reach the limit of your leadership ability
Why it is important to know yourself
Shareable Quotes (#NewChurches):
“We are all being stretched in ways as leaders that we have never been stretched before.” – @edstetzer
“There is a real reality that you do outgrow your own leadership, and then you have to make a choice.” – @edstetzer
“If your leadership capacity has been met, it’s OK to say I could develop those skills but I feel more in my lane, calling, and gifting doing this.” – @edstetzer
“As we grow older and as we do different aspects of ministry and leadership, the more we are faithful we are going to find our sweet spot.” – @danielsangi
“I think there is a danger when you find your sweet spot and you are the expert and you don’t want to keep on growing.” – @danielsangi
“I think there is a difference between growing deeper and growing wider.” – @danielsangi
“You should never just be content with not growing because you think you are in your sweet spot.” – @danielsangi
“You don’t want to end up in something that you also don’t enjoy.” – @edstetzer
Recommended Resources:
Listen to Episode 533: What Do You Do When You Don’t Have the Vision Anymore?
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October 12, 2020Episode 534: Rebuilding Culture After COVID
In Episode 534 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Todd discuss leadership pipeline and rebuilding church culture after COVID.
“During COVID, I’ve realized that my natural bent is to do rather than equip. What advice do you have for the pastor who has unintentionally led their culture down this road where they have become the doer rather than the equipper of ministry?”
In This Episode, You’ll Discover:
Why Ephesians 4 is important for leaders
The first step in building new culture
Shareable Quotes (#NewChurches):
“The fact is COVID has changed the cultures of our churches.” – @danielsangi
“You can focus your people on whatever you would like to focus them on and not have to worry about all the ancillary things that were nice to have at your church.” – @toddadkins
“Discipleship and development are essential to your job and your role as a leader as Ephesians 4 points out.” – @toddadkins
“You have no excuse not to take a step back and look at the things you can hand off and do that responsibly.” – @toddadkins
“Every single role you have can be given away. Even your role as pastor can be given away.” – @toddadkins
“If you’ve unintentionally led your culture down this road, there’s not one silver bullet to turn it back.” – @danielsangi
“Now is the time to install leadership pipeline in your context.” – @danielsangi
Recommended Resources:
Read No Silver Bullets by Daniel Im
Take the Leadership Pipeline course on Ministry Grid
Take the Leading Rapid Change course on Ministry Grid
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October 08, 2020Episode 533: What Do You Do When You Don’t Have the Vision Anymore?
In Episode 533 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Ed discuss the emotional state of what is going on and where people’s hearts are in light of the current situation.
“What do you do when you just don’t have the vision to go on anymore?”
In This Episode, You’ll Discover:
Why it is important to staff for competencies
Different considerations for a planned church plant
Shareable Quotes (#NewChurches):
“This idea that we are constantly filled with passion and enthusiasm for vision is sort of a modern invention.” – @edstetzer
“The reality is ministry can be and often is a long, hard slog.” – @edstetzer
“The joy of ministry does not come from vision, the joy of ministry comes from faithfulness, obedience, and community.” – @edstetzer
“There is a time and a place to say I have no more vision, and to quit and let someone else lead it.” – @edstetzer
“Maybe the draining out that some people might be experiencing is actually a reflection of what they’ve put their identity in.” – @danielsangi
“I wouldn’t be surprised if the lack of uncertainty in regards to the future is exasperating the fact that many people feel like they’ve lost their vision.” – @danielsangi
“The excitement of the vision that has driven church planting for thirty years has been sucked out of much of church planting and Jesus is still on His throne, God is still at work, churches still need to be planted, and we need gospel workers to be on this mission.” – @edstetzer
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October 05, 2020Episode 532: Staffing for Planting a Church or Campus During COVID-19
In Episode 532 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Todd discuss staffing a new church plant or a new church campus during COVID.
“When you think about a campus launch, and you want to launch during COVID, what does a staffing configuration look like? How much of it should be bivocational/covocational in light of the meeting restrictions or do you launch in the same way you might have pre-COVID?”
In This Episode, You’ll Discover:
Why it is important to staff for competencies
Different considerations for a planned church plant
Shareable Quotes (#NewChurches):
“One of the things COVID reveals is the weight of the work of ministry and what is being done by whom, where, when, why.” – @toddadkins
“As a church plant, you can focus only on what is essential and you don’t have that burden of the large launch strategy that is pervasive right now in the church planting space. You get to rewrite the book.” – @toddadkins
“This is why staffing for competencies rather than felt needs is so important.” – @danielsangi
“The competency and the profile of who you would want as a campus pastor is the same COVID or no COVID, if you are staffing for competency.” – @danielsangi
“The thing that changes is the amount of time you might hire them for and the amount of hours that you are going to put into a new campus.” – @danielsangi
“I would still say if you have the systems and you have the person, then launch campuses during COVID, but don’t put the same amount of staffing hours into it. Instead consider that person more as a community or neighborhood pastor.” – @danielsangi
“It’s all about having a committed, competent core, and you can get that during this time.” – @toddadkins
Recommended Resources:
Listen to NewChurches Q&A Episode 530: Should I Launch Fully Online?
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October 01, 2020Episode 531: Preparing for Crisis
In Episode 531 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Ed discuss how to be better prepared for the next crisis.
“What can we learn from now to prepare us for the next pandemic?”
In This Episode, You’ll Discover:
How cultural realities affect the church
When it is appropriate to speak up
Shareable Quotes (#NewChurches):
“There is going to be a crisis and how do we lead in the midst of crisis is a key that I think a lot of people haven’t thought about.” – @edstetzer
“In a crisis, our mission, our vision, and our values remain unchanged. What has changed is our strategy and our structure.” – @edstetzer
“Most of us aren’t prepared for crises, but most of us will face a crisis in our lifetime.” – @edstetzer
“You need to consider that there are certain phases in a crisis.” – @edstetzer
“The best leaders through crisis are getting up into the laboratory.” – @edstetzer
“You will be the leader in a crisis in a way that you never have before and it will impact your leadership for years to come.” – @edstetzer
“Your leadership now will actually determine how people will follow you later.” – @edstetzer
Recommended Resources:
Read “This Is Not the Crisis, but It Is Just a Few Weeks Away” by Ed Stetzer
Take the “Christian Leadership in Times of Crisis” Course
Read You’re It by Leonard J. Marcus, Eric J. McNulty, Joseph M. Henderson, and Barry C. Dorn
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September 28, 2020Episode 530: Should I Launch Fully Online?
In Episode 530 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Todd discuss if it is better to launch online or in-person.
“What are your thoughts on launching fully online in the Spring of 2021 and then going to a physical launch for the church in the Fall? Is this a good idea? Is this a bad idea? Is it sustainable from Spring to Fall? What things need to be in place prior to doing some of it? What are some of the advantages and disadvantages to doing it? And would you recommend doing it considering the presence of COVID and likely the ongoing continued presence of COVID at that time?”
In This Episode, You’ll Discover:
Why it is important to have some in-person gathering
The benefits to launching small
Shareable Quotes (#NewChurches):
“If Spring looks like what most the states look like now, then yes it is a great idea as long as you have groups and those groups meet in person.” – @toddadkins
“You are competing against anybody in the world, not just the church down the street that you can get to, because I can get to any church online.” – @toddadkins
“The thing that is really rising to the surface in the midst of COVID is the importance of local connections, of neighboring with one another, and the importance of lingering and being incarnational and contextual in your neighborhood. That is what is the stickiest thing.” – @danielsangi
“If you are launching physically in groups before you launch online, then I think it could work. But, if launching fully online in the Spring means that is when you get started and you are hoping to do a physical launch in the Fall, I think you should actually flip it.” – @danielsangi
“Push online as much as you can, because as a church planter your greatest strength is the time you can spend building into people and discipling people because you don’t have all the other baggage a traditional church may have.” – @danielsangi
“Honestly, until COVID is done and everything goes back to some semblance of normal, I would throw away the whole launch large strategy.” – @danielsangi
“How do you launch strong and small? You can be sustainable.” – @danielsangi
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September 24, 2020Episode 529: Leading During Difficult Political Times
In Episode 529 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Ed continue their discussion on leading as pastors in the midst of these political times.
In This Episode, You’ll Discover:
How cultural realities affect the church
When it is appropriate to speak up
Shareable Quotes (#NewChurches):
“Your local church is now being influenced by these cultural realities.” – @edstetzer
“You might say as a pastor or church planter that it breaks your heart to see Asian members of the community and church targeted.” – @edstetzer
“People in your congregation need to know that this is not a place where you are going to allow that kind of foolishness, and, furthermore, you want to speak up into the cultural moment as well.” – @edstetzer
“You don’t have to comment on every tragedy, but you do want to comment in such a way that people in your church know you care about racial justice.” – @edstetzer
“Host a better conversation. Don’t enable more partisan sniping. Don’t jump to conclusions. Share something to your church that says you care about this and here’s how you are working to make it better.” – @edstetzer
“You want to speak up in such a way that the visible minorities in your church know that you believe that their lives matter, that you will speak up when there is injustice.” – @edstetzer
“Your primary responsibility is your local church. You are not a cultural commentator.” – @edstetzer
Recommended Resources:
Listen to Episode 527: Politics and the Church
Read “Dear ‘Whole-Life’ Progressive Evangelicals, Did You Forget ‘Pro-Life’ and the Unborn?” by Ed Stetzer
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