In this episode we...

• discuss how you can teach your congregation to obey all that Christ's commands using a tool that you might not expect. Can Sunday School be redeemed without adding more work to your plate?

Upcoming Events

• TGC Gathering at First Southern Baptist: https://fb.me/e/3qBOjuFb8
• 9Marks Workshop at Wellsboro Bible Church: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fulfill-your-ministry-a-9-marks-workshop-for-pastors-and-church-leaders-tickets-546364219087?fbclid=IwAR3MA7JIt4z6vdh3nYopBvrQng7dQyu1Qu8EjDbbAcmGTOtPNKT8PLXOu7o

In this episode we...

• discuss ChatGPT and what applications or drawbacks it may have in rural ministry.

Upcoming Events

• TGC Gathering at First Southern Baptist: https://fb.me/e/3qBOjuFb8
• 9Marks Workshop at Wellsboro Bible Church: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fulfill-your-ministry-a-9-marks-workshop-for-pastors-and-church-leaders-tickets-546364219087?fbclid=IwAR3MA7JIt4z6vdh3nYopBvrQng7dQyu1Qu8EjDbbAcmGTOtPNKT8PLXOu7o

In this episode we...

• give you a realistic pathway to find rest and refreshment without hurting the church or piling on more work SO you can be more effective in the long haul.
  • Plan:
    • Week 1 = Rest
    • Week 2 = Catch up at home or Church
    • *Visit other churches

Upcoming Events

• TGC Gathering at First Southern Baptist: https://fb.me/e/3qBOjuFb8
• 9Marks Workshop at Wellsboro Bible Church: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fulfill-your-ministry-a-9-marks-workshop-for-pastors-and-church-leaders-tickets-546364219087?fbclid=IwAR3MA7JIt4z6vdh3nYopBvrQng7dQyu1Qu8EjDbbAcmGTOtPNKT8PLXOu7o

In this episode we discuss...

• encouragement for rural pastors to lead them to personal repentance, to cast aside idols of their own heart, and to a single minded devotion to trust in the Lord for all the victories He gives. To give them a rallying cry that they can remember.
  • Come Thou Founts most obscure lyric helps us dearly!
  • 1 Samuel 7
  • How can we raise our ebenezers?
    • Repent from all your own idolatry and busyness
    • Cry out for God’s Help
    • Remember the victories God has already won and trust Him

Our Quote of the Day:

• Moses spent forty years thinking he was somebody, forty years learning he was nobody, and forty years discovering what God can do with a nobody. - DL Moody 
• TGC Gathering at First Southern Baptist: https://fb.me/e/3qBOjuFb8
• 9Marks Workshop at Wellsboro Bible Church: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fulfill-your-ministry-a-9-marks-workshop-for-pastors-and-church-leaders-tickets-546364219087?fbclid=IwAR3MA7JIt4z6vdh3nYopBvrQng7dQyu1Qu8EjDbbAcmGTOtPNKT8PLXOu7o

In this episode we discuss...

• the need to get more accustomed to picking up the binoculars to see the needs of the churches around us…in places people don’t normally look.
  • The church normally looks with 2 lenses:
    • Reading glasses up close (our own congregation)
    • A telescope (foreign/overseas missions)
  • We need a third lense:
    • Binoculars in the towns and counties around us.
  • Acts 11:27-30
  • Romans 15:25-27
  • Romans 16:1-2
  • Colossians 4:7-9
  • 1 Corinthians 16:19

Our Quote of the Day:

•  A kingdom partnership is a gospel-driven relationship between interdependent local churches that pray, work, and share resources together strategically to glorify God through kingdom-advancing goals they could not accomplish alone. - Chris Bruno & Matt Dirks "Churches Partnering Together"
• TGC Gathering at First Southern Baptist: https://fb.me/e/3qBOjuFb8
• 9Marks Workshop at Wellsboro Bible Church: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fulfill-your-ministry-a-9-marks-workshop-for-pastors-and-church-leaders-tickets-546364219087?fbclid=IwAR3MA7JIt4z6vdh3nYopBvrQng7dQyu1Qu8EjDbbAcmGTOtPNKT8PLXOu7o

In this episode we discuss...

• the unhealthy culture of rugged individualism.
  • An Unhealthy Culture of Rugged Individualism is dangerously nominal.
  • An Unhealthy Culture of Rugged Individualism is immature and selfish.
  • Proverbs 18:1
  • Ephesians 5:7-14
  • Proverbs 28:13
  • 1 John 1:5-10

Our Quote of the Day:

• The confessing of sins to each other is not only commanded, but it is also a means of comfort and a help to the conscience. For when we lay bare our conscience before another and receive from him the assurance of forgiveness, our heart is greatly lightened and comforted. - Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss Reformed
• TGC Gathering at First Southern Baptist: https://fb.me/e/3qBOjuFb8
• 9Marks Workshop at Wellsboro Bible Church: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fulfill-your-ministry-a-9-marks-workshop-for-pastors-and-church-leaders-tickets-546364219087?fbclid=IwAR3MA7JIt4z6vdh3nYopBvrQng7dQyu1Qu8EjDbbAcmGTOtPNKT8PLXOu7o

In this episode we discuss...

• helping rural elders & deacons support each other by laying aside their own feelings in favor of the decision of the plurality.
  • How you react after the vote is cast matters more than you think.
  • Don't give into temptation to complain and dishonor the brothers you're serving with.
  • Instead respond humbly, and walk through theological and practical differences with grace.

Our Quote of the Day:

• Come to the expository work shop in Williampsort PA on April 27 and come to the 9 Marks Workshop at Wellsboro Bible Church on September 29-30. - TJ, Joe, and Joshua
• TGC Gathering at First Southern Baptist: https://fb.me/e/3qBOjuFb8
• 9Marks Workshop at Wellsboro Bible Church: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fulfill-your-ministry-a-9-marks-workshop-for-pastors-and-church-leaders-tickets-546364219087?fbclid=IwAR3MA7JIt4z6vdh3nYopBvrQng7dQyu1Qu8EjDbbAcmGTOtPNKT8PLXOu7o

In this episode we...

• Ask for rural pastors to help us think through what might be good for them. 
• TGC Gathering at First Southern Baptist: https://fb.me/e/3qBOjuFb8
• 9Marks Workshop at Wellsboro Bible Church: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fulfill-your-ministry-a-9-marks-workshop-for-pastors-and-church-leaders-tickets-546364219087?fbclid=IwAR3MA7JIt4z6vdh3nYopBvrQng7dQyu1Qu8EjDbbAcmGTOtPNKT8PLXOu7o

Our Quote of the Day:

• The Lord measures out perfection neither by the multitude nor the magnitude of our deeds, but by the manner in which we perform them. Let us therefore be diligent in doing what is right, and let us serve one another with love. - John Cotton

In this episode we discuss...

• helping rural pastors see that faithfulness to God is of primary importance.  You were not hired to grow a church! Healthy does not necessarily mean growing.
  • Do all healthy churches grow?
    • 1 Corinthians 3:5-15
  • What should we pursue instead?
    • 1 Corinthians 3:10-11
  • How will you be judged?
    • 1 Peter 5:1-4
    • 2 Timothy 4:1-5
    • Hebrews 13:17
• Check out this article from Mark Dever on Church Growth.

Our Quote of the Day:

• It is not what we do that matters, but what a sovereign God chooses to do through us. - A.W. Tozer

In this episode we discuss...

• employing the gifts of the entire body instead of relying too much on the pastor.
  • Romans 12:3–8
  • Ephesians 4:4–16

Our Quote of the Day:

• (God) would never give you so much of the world to lose your heart in the love of it, or so little to distract you with the care of it. - John Flavel, The Mystery of Providence