The Bible says that our gifts and calling are irrevocable - but our gifts can also grow and our calling goes upward. The Bible also says that our appointing can change abruptly. These transitions in appointing, calling and gifting provide opportunities for us to grow in faith, personal identity and into the alignment of who we are and what we do. In this podcast, Steve and Wayne discuss how we can embrace and grow through the transitions we may face.

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Music by - Dave Osorio - Peruvian Woods

In this episode, Steve and Wayne discuss how to understand the what, how, and where/who of personal vision, how to construct a personal vision statement as well as the importance of the alignment of our personal vision with the vision on any church or organisation we get involved with

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In this episode, Steve and Wayne discuss kingdom values and how our personal kingdom vision is concerned with championing certain values to certain people. They look at a kingdom value set and discuss the need to understand your cultural blindspots as well as the limitations of branding exercises in establishing culture

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In our previous podcast, we introduced four types of leaders from 2 Timothy 2:2 and the leadership necessary to learn to serve others well. We looked at the roles of Doers, Managers, Leaders and Leaders of Leaders. In this podcast we look in detail at the roles of Leaders and leaders of leaders and the transitions that we need to make in going from a manager to a leader and from a leader to a leader of leaders. We look at the leadership styles that are crucial for these two roles. The reality is that no-one is purely one role or another and even leaders of leaders are still required to be doers, managers and leaders. 

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Being a servant leader means that you need to adjust your behaviour to be helpful to different types of people. As a part of serving others, there are 4 main management and leadership roles that we can learn. Paul refers to these in 2 Timothy 2:2 as himself (which we'll call a "leader of leaders"), Timothy (which we'll call a "leader"), faithful men (which we'll call a "manager") and others (which we'll call "doers"). Each of these 4 roles has different ways of serving. In this first of a two-part podcast, Steve and Wayne look at serving others through "Doing" and "Managing", the actions we need to learn, the leadership styles we should adopt and the transitions that are necessary from being a "doer" to a "manager" 

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Music by - Dave Osorio - Peruvian Woods

Churches have a variety of role expectations on leaders and not all of these expectations help people to enter the kingdom. In this podcast, we look at the church as a spiritual house, as a family and as a body and discuss how leaders can help the church in these three things. We include a discussion on how church hierarchical structures can work against the church operating as a family and as a body

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In this podcast, Steve and Wayne look at some of the subtle ways that christian leaders can use control tactics (What Jesus called "The leaven of Herod") They examine how these tactics discourage people from entering the kingdom. They contrast this with developing kingdom influence, especially by recognising the grace of God on your life and giving freely from it

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In the second part of this two-part podcast, we continue to review why pastors leaving paid roles may not necessarily be a bad thing. In part 1, we addressed 9 criticisms of resigning pastors from a prominent blogger and offer another point of view. In this episode, we review 14 reasons why the world may be a better place when pastors resign.

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Music by - Dave Osorio - Peruvian Woods

In this two part podcast, we look at why pastors leaving paid roles may not necessarily be a bad thing. In this part 1, we address the 9 criticisms of resigning pastors from a prominent blogger and offer another point of view. (In the upcoming part 2, we look at 14 reasons the world may be a better place when pastors resign)

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Music by - Dave Osorio - Peruvian Woods

Whenever we fill a leadership role, by definition we are aiming to help others to go in a particular direction. True Kingdom leaders therefore help others to enter the kingdom. Religious leaders, however, aim to get others to fit into the structure, systems and culture of their particular religious organisation. In this podcast, Steve and Wayne examine how Jesus criticised the religious leadership of the Pharisees and apply that to some common practices of today's religious leaders. In perhaps Jesus's most damning criticism, he said that the Pharisees stopped those who were already entering from going in further. This is reason for all christian leaders to stop and reflect on the outcomes of their leadership

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Music by - Dave Osorio - Peruvian Woods