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February 15, 2022Amy Jorden talks about Sunday Service Programming Amy Jorden is the Executive Lead Pastor at One Church Gloucester and is also responsible for overseeing all the Sunday Services across the One Church Network.
- Hi Amy, tell us a bit about your role of overseeing Sunday Services. What’s involved in that?
- What’s your goal for each Sunday Service? What’s the big win?
- One Church is a multisite church, and one of those locations was a separate church that has joined us, and then since planted a further location. What challenges have you had in bringing Sunday Services together?
- How important is it that all services are alike? Why?
- 3 of the church’s locations are small congregations. How do you manage the tension between big and small services? How do you create consistency?
...more February 08, 2022Gianni Gaeta talks about church planting My guest today is Gianni Gaeta. Gianni Gaeta is the founder and leader of the LIFE Church Austria movement with his wife Angela. Gianni's passion is to encourage people to dream big and to think of the seemingly impossible, and then to take steps to implement this, whether in church planting nationally and internationally or in the field of business, education and politics.
- I’d love to hear about how you started Life Church.
- Both you and your wife Angela are not Austrian. You are Italian and Angela is English. How did you find it planting a church in a culture you didn’t grow up in?
- Life Church has many churches across Austria. How do you choose where to plant?
- What qualities do you look for in leaders for your churches?
- How do you keep consistency between churches? Is that even important to you?
...more February 01, 2022Adam Legge talks about creating new worshipping communities My guest today is Adam Legge. Adam is the Activity & Faith Leader for Sportily, run by the Diocese of Gloucester.
- Hi Adam, you’ve started working for Sportily. What is Sportily and how does it all work?
- I was privileged to go to the Commissioning Ceremony for your role. What really stood out for me from that ceremony was that you were being commissioned to start a form of church, but in a different way. Is Sportily a church, an event, a lead-in? Where does it sit?
- Sportily is primarily aimed at young people, but can this kind of expression of church work for the whole family too? How would that look?
- Why do you think it’s necessary to start churches in different ways than what we’ve always known?
...more January 25, 2022Dan Reiland talks Exec Pastors, Multisite, Hiring and more My Guest today is Dan Reiland. Dan Reiland is the Chief of Staff at 12Stone Church in Lawrenceville, Georgia. He previously partnered with John Maxwell for 20 years, first as Executive Pastor at Skyline Wesleyan Church in San Diego, then as Vice President of Leadership and Church Development at INJOY. Dan is also the author of the books Amplified Leadership: 5 Practices to Establish Influence, Build People, and impact others for a lifetime; and his latest book Confident Leader! Become one, stay one.
- Hi Dan, I’m aware that the invention of role of ‘Executive Pastor’ was thanks to you. Back when you were working under John Maxwell at his church, you coined that term, and it’s a job title that’s stuck to this day. What is the job of the Executive Pastor?
- Can the job of an Executive Pastor work in a small church?
- Your current role at 12Stone is Chief of Staff. There’s lots of resources available on the type of people to hire, but not so much on when. At what size should a church look to make it’s first hire?
- Which roles are most important to hire first in a church plant or small church situation?
- How do you balance the hiring of pastoral staff and the hiring of administrative staff?
...more January 18, 2022Nathan Jorden talks Online Church My Podcast guest today is Nathan Jorden. Nathan is the Online Pastor at One Church, based in the Southwest of England. Nathan is also one of my very best friends, so it’s great to have Nath on the show today.
- You’ve just launched One Church’s Online Location. What was the remit you were given for this role?
- What did you have in terms of resources to start with?
- Why is online church important?
- Who have you designed the online location for and why?
- What’s your current approach to reaching these people online? What are you doing?
...more December 14, 2021Tom Elliott talks comedy, evangelism, and not taking ourselves too seriously My guest today is Tom Elliott. Tom is a comedy magician and also a Christian. Tom also hosts a podcast on wellbeing having interview guests such as Milton Jones.
- How do write your comedy?
- Hi Tom, I’d love to hear a bit about your story, how did you end up being the comedy magician you are today?
- What motivates you to do what you do?
- How do you get received on the comedy circuit as a Christian magician and comedian?
- Where’s a good starting point for churches if they have never really thought about evangelism?
...more December 07, 2021Jim Tomberlin talks multisite strategy My Podcast guest is Jim Tomberlin. Jim is the Chief of Staff at Christ Fellowship in Miami and the multisite specialist for The Unstuck Group.
- Hi Jim, your expertise is in Church Multisite. What were the pre-COVID best practices around multisite? If you were to advise a church before COVID, what would have you advised them to do?
- Now we are in the COVID era, what’s changed? What’s the new advice?
- What are the initial conditions needed in a church to go multisite?
- Let’s talk about planting. We used to talk about planting in that 20-30 minute drive time radius from a campus. Has that changed now with the online church revolution?
- Another area I’m thinking about is buildings. You talk in your article with Outreach Magazine that smaller buildings will become the norm. Why smaller? And how small are we talking? What is the new ideal size to plant with?
...more November 30, 2021Justin Brierley talks about the church's response to life's big questions My guest today is Justin Brierley. Justin is Theology and Apologetics Editor at Premier and presents the podcast 'Unbelievable?' interviewing such guests as Bishop Robert Barron, Douglas Murray, Jordan Peterson, Sir Roger Penrose, Dave Rubin, John Lennox, and Derren Brown.
Justin also hosts the fortnightly Ask NT Wright Anything podcast, where Justin gets the audience to ask Tom Wright all sorts of questions. Justin is also a TikTok sensation and has a whopping 253,000 followers on that channel!
- Justin, you talk with a lot of sceptics and many of the sceptics on your show started out life as a Christians, but since moved away from the faith, often at the time of being teenagers. How has the church failed in helping people tackle life’s deepest questions?
- What are the big questions that you think the church needs to start addressing?
- Do you think there’s a problem with how we present what we believe?
- Fascinatingly, there is a resurgence of people investigating faith, and especially looking at the Bible. One person who particularly comes to mind is a guest you had on your show, Dr Jordan Peterson. He’s not outspokenly a Christian, although he teaches extensively from the Bible, with thousands coming to listen. What are these new thinkers, like Jordan Peterson, doing that we in the church are missing?
...more November 23, 2021Tiffany Deluccia talks church marketing My Podcast guest today is Tiffany Deluccia. Tiffany is the Director of Sales & Marketing at The Unstuck Group. She graduated from Clemson University, and before joining The Unstuck Group, worked in public relations with major national retail brands, nonprofits and churches on content creation, strategic planning, communication consulting, social media and media relations.
- When we’re thinking about marketing, I think that many Pastors and church leaders get confused about what it actually is. What is marketing?
- Marketing and the Church have had a rough relationship. What marketing mistakes have you seen churches make?
- What the right way to think about marketing in the church?
- What’s the goal of Marketing? Why is it important?
- Much of marketing in the workplace is based around funnels. What are they and do they translate into the church?
...more November 16, 2021Brady Shearer talks about communications and the future of the church Brady Shearer – The New Era of Church
My guest today is Brady Shearer. Brady is the Founder of Nucleus Church & Pro Church Tools. With a large following of 35 thousand people on Instagram, and a huge 116 thousand people on YouTube, Brady is the best person in the world I can think to talk to about church communications. Brady is a great strategist and thinker too, so I know that you’ll enjoy this conversation.
- You say in your videos that we’ve just undergone the biggest communications shift in 500 years, and that’s correct. The internet, and mobile devices, in particular, have been as revolutionary as the printing press. However, the church is, in many instances, still struggling to keep up. What are the biggest areas of communications in church life that still need to come in line with the times?
- I’ve hard you talk before about how all our church services are essentially the same. They’re all slight variations on Worship, Announcements & Preach. Are you seeing any churches starting to buck the trend?
- What new thinking do we need to adopt to start bucking the trend? How can we break out of the box we’ve made for ourselves?
- In the last 2 decades, the church has been defined most by the attractional church service. Probably most popularised by Australian and American megachurches, Hillsong, Willow Creek, Elevation, and more. is this model still relevant in the era of Millennials & Gen-Z? What’s changing?
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FAQs about thinking.church podcast:
How many episodes does thinking.church podcast have?
The podcast currently has 73 episodes available.