Project Pastor Podcast

Scott and Troy the question...What are your three nonnegotiables in life & work? And how are you filtering your decisions through those nonnegotiables?

Brad Gray is a Christian husband and father who's adamantly resolved to sharing the gospel of "grace upon grace" for the weary and the worn out. Brad currently serves as the Assistant Pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Southwest Ranches, Florida. Brad's mission is to encourage lives with the eternal truths of the gospel of grace, which alone can transform lives and spur them to pursue God. You can find Brad and his writing and his podcast at https://graceupongrace.cc/

Scott & Troy discuss the question... What does it mean to be hospitable? How does it affect our lives as well as others.

Rusty George is the Lead Pastor at Real Life Church in Southern California; a multi-site church with campuses in Canyon Country, Valencia and a large online community. Under Rusty's lead, Real Life has become one of the fastest growing churches in America–growing by 111% in 2011 alone.

Beyond leading his church of 6,000+ members every weekend, Rusty is a global speaker, leader and teacher focusing his message on helping people find and follow Jesus. Rusty has also written several books and writes regularly here at pastorrustygeorge.com.

Aside from being a loyal Chiefs, Royals and Lakers fan, Rusty is first and foremost committed to his family. Rusty has been married to his wife, Lorrie, for over twenty years and they have two daughters, Lindsey and Sidney. As a family they enjoy walking the dogs, watching the Food Network and playing board games together.

Scott & Troy discuss the question... What is it about what we do for church that causes people to value it so little? We talk about the attitudes and views towards gathering together in community. How are own selfishness gets in the way of becoming the body of Christ.

Scott & Troy discuss the question... Are we using words the same? in other words, do the words we use to communicate have the same meaning we intend or are others interpreting other meanings from them.

Our problem as humans, we want our ministers to be perfect and they're not, never will be. We are all broken and would be better off accepting someone who stands before us and speaks of God as just a regular "Joe" with warts, pimples and yes ear rings, or nose piercings, tattoos. When we polish something, then it takes continual polishing, that will eventually tarnish. // J. Slinkard

Tullian is a graduate of Columbia International University, where he received a degree in Philosophy, and Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, where he earned his Master of Divinity.

A grandson of (Evangelist) Billy and Ruth Graham, Tullian was the Founding Pastor of the former New City Church (in Fort Lauderdale, Florida) which merged with the historic Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in 2009. He served there as Senior Pastor until June 2015.

During his time at Coral Ridge, Tullian founded LIBERATE—a ministry that sought to "connect God's inexhaustible grace to an exhausted world" through annual conferences (2011–2015), training, book and music publishing, daily blog posts, a daily radio program, and a weekly TV broadcast.

Tullian has written eight books including, It Is Finished: 365 Days of Good News (2015), One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World (2013), Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets You Free (2012), and Jesus + Nothing = Everything (2011) which won Christianity Today's Book of the Year in 2011. Both "Glorious Ruin" and "Jesus + Nothing = Everything" were ECPA finalists for Book of the Year. He has also served as a Contributing Editor to various magazines and journals. Tullian has traveled extensively around the USA to speak at conferences, churches, universities, and seminaries.

After a season of self-destruction leading up to, and following, his resignation from Coral Ridge in June 2015, Tullian is now married to Stacie, and together they have five children and one grandchild. They live in Fort Myers, Florida, and are members of Living Faith Church.

Tullian longs to see broken people encounter God's boundless love...

Scott & Troy discuss the question... where do you find find refuge?

Scott & Troy discuss the the question... Are there those who you believe don't deserve grace? or is Grace conditional?

Karl Vaters is a small church pastor. He could be accurately called a small church champion. After nearly 25 years of ministry as a small church pastor he finally discovered this. He's written two books The Grasshopper Myth and his latest book Small Church Essentials.

If you're a small church pastor you should be following anything Karl writes.

Below is a quote from Karl's Pivot Blog...

"Pivot (Karl's blog the resides @Christauanity Today) wants to help change our thinking about that. To encourage the body of Christ that small churches can be healthy, innovative and world-changing - just like they've been for the last 2,000 years.

We don't want more churches to be small, we want small churches to be great! We want to see better, stronger, healthier small churches, led by passionate, prayerful, capable, innovative and loving pastors.

We believe being small is not a problem to fix, but a strategy God wants to use.

Most small church leaders have not been told that - at least they haven't been told it enough. If we can help turn up the volume on that message, we will have done what we set out to do."