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(02:04) Biblical Understanding

(03:39) Life: “You’ve got to have more faith”

(05:53) Preaching: “You’ve got to find your own set of jokes”

(07:45) Altar call: “Learn how to manipulate the emotions of your congregation”

(10:56) Friendship: “don’t make friends in the church”

(12:23) Ministry: “change everything at first”

(14:16) Ministry: “You can only spend 5 years at a church”

(16:51) Preaching: “Don’t write your own sermons”

(18:00) Ministry: “you can’t build a church on doctrine”

18:37 Ministry: “Grow the church by catering to needs”

(19:51) Ministry: “throw away the methods of how church used to be done”

(23:40) Training: “don’t get in the way of a persons calling”

(25:31) Preaching: “Have your pulpit ready for the recent headlines”

(27:10) Preaching: “you can adequately shepherd the flock from the pulpit”

(28:25) Ministry: “if you do everything right you will have ministry fruit”

(30:00) Final word and prayer

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(02:59) Biblical understanding

(08:31) Serious accusations where an investigation must take place

(11:15) Different levels of accusations and how to handle them

(13:48) The importance of qualified Elder/Pastors within the church

(16:46) Technology and the secret lives of pastors

(19:21) Technology and the destruction of ministries through false accusations

(23:22) Advice to pastors to minister in the tension

(29:15) Final word and prayer

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(02:25) Biblical foundation

(08:15) Faithfully evaluating spiritual fruit

(14:13) Lack of fruit and evaluating calling

(19:48) Fruit from following a faithful ministry

(22:04) Lack of fruit tied to gifting

(25:11) Finding a pastoral mentor to help grow in gifting

(26:19) Is faithful ministry enough to be labeled as fruitful?

(31:11) Final word and prayer

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(01:58) Biblical Foundation

(05:37) Jim’s complicated relationship with social media

(10:17) Brian’s intentional use of social media

(14:39) Awareness in social media use

(19:32) Avoiding conflict on social media

(24:37) Guarding from sensual vices on social media

(26:22) Leveraging social media for faithful ministry purposes

(36:13) Final word and prayer

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(03:34) Biblical foundation

(09:46) The use of NDA’s in unjustified terminations

(11:29) How this HappensPainting the picture

Reasons why this happens

(17:42) Unclear expectations of the qualifications of a pastor

(19:50) The hiring process is broken from the beginning

(23:48) You upset the wrong person

What do you do?

(25:58) Challenge the termination honestly

(28:45) Amend the NDA

(30:47) Encouragement to the congregation

(32:50) Challenge the leadership

(36:15) Final word and prayer

(02:20) How Jim, as an outsider, viewed the beginning of the ministry

(07:04) Brian’s reflecting on how the ministry began

(09:18) Auburndale Baptist Church as Practical Shepherding began

(17:03) Who came up with the name Practical Shepherding and why?

(22:00) The formation of the ministry

(27:20) What does a typical week look like for you?

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(30:40) How will the growth of the ministry continue to help pastors thrive?

(34:28) How do you evaluate the core calling when opportunities of growth arise?

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(36:58) The stewardship of the ministry for years to come

(39:51) Jim’s view from the beginning of the ministry

(43:53) Prayer

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(02:20) Biblical foundation

(08:28) Where do you start?

(16:54) Steps to reconciliation

(25:35) Your priority in ministry is your wife

(31:26) Final word and prayer

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(01:53) Biblical framework

(04:20) Challenges in bringing in new members

(05:20) Shepherding the delivery person

(08:49) Challenges in a Revitalization context

(10:00) Practical Ways to welcome new members well

Welcome them through preaching

Welcome them through living life together

Welcome them through connecting them to others

Welcome them through connecting them to serving

Welcome them through theological contextualization

Welcome them through committed prayer

(22:13) Final word and prayer 

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(03:16) Biblical framework for this discussion

(07:25) Reasons for comparison and pulling back the curtain

(10:19) Questioning your calling

(11:29) A stewardship of pastoral gifting

Ways to avoid the comparison game

(14:51) Content but longing for more

(17:15) Pray for spiritual eyes

(19:32) Growing in gratitude

(20:48) Recognize the stewardship you’ve been given

(25:00) Getting away from asking, “how big is your church?”

(29:30) Final word and prayer

Mea Culpa and the importance of place