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Culture and Team Building – EH Leader Podcast

One of the primary tasks of a leader is to create a healthy culture with healthy teams. For Christian leaders, this task is even more demanding because the kind of culture and teams we create are to be radically different than those of the world. In this podcast, I build on the four characteristics of emotionally healthy culture and team building from The Emotionally Healthy Leader, expanding on each with personal examples and specific ways we have integrated them into our work over the last 23 years. They are: Work Performance and Personal Spiritual Formation are Inseparable. We are not simply concerned with our team’s ability to do their tasks well and fulfill their job description – be it paid of unpaid. We are deeply concerned if they are maturing in Jesus. It is the first question we ask when we meet with them. The Elephants in the Room are Acknowledged and Confronted. An “elephant in. Read more.

The Emotionally Unhealthy Leader – EH Leader Podcast

Many staff teams, seminaries, training centers, boards, and Christian colleges/Bible schools use The Emotionally Leader (Zondervan, 2015) as a foundational text on leadership. Along with the book, some have used our free Emotionally Healthy Leader Discussion Guide, as well as any podcasts or YouTube videos they can find to supplement their readings. To serve you, and this growing audience, this week launches the first of nine podcasts from The Emotionally Healthy Leader on “The Emotionally Unhealthy Leader.” I begin by describing the four characteristics of an emotionally unhealthy leader: They have low self-awareness They prioritize ministry over their marriage or singleness They do more activity for God than their relationship with God can sustain They lack a Sabbath/work rhythm. The problem is compounded by the unhealthy, and largely unspoken, commandments which dominate our Christian leadership cultures. “It’s Not a Success Unless It’s Bigger and Better” “What You Do Is More Important than Who You. Read more.

Church Culture Revolution: Part 6 – EH Leader Podcast

To create a healthy church culture is indispensable to multiplying deeply transformed disciples. This week’s podcast explores the sixth and final quality in this six-part series on the marks of such a culture. They are: Slowed-Down Spirituality Integrity in Leadership Beneath-the-Surface Discipleship Healthy Community Passionate Marriage and Singleness Every Person in Full-Time Ministry It has rightly been said that to rediscover the biblical teaching that every Christ-follower is in full-time ministry is like discovering a new continent! The implications are that vast. For example, the sacred/secular divide of church and work is eliminated. All of life becomes holy and part of our discipleship. Our people are filled with a profound sense of purpose. Spectators are turned into creative witnesses for Christ. Our role as equippers in the church is restored (Eph. 4:11ff). After providing a broad theological overview of our calling and our work, I offer 5 specific applications for us as pastors/leaders if. Read more.

Church Culture Revolution: Part 5 – EH Leader Podcast

In this week’s podcast, I expand on the fifth quality of a church culture that deeply changes lives: Slowed-Down Spirituality Integrity in Leadership Beneath-the-Surface Discipleship Healthy Community Passionate Marriage and Singleness Every Person in Full-Time Ministry Throughout the history of the church, the church has not done a good job of creating a counterculture where God’s passionate love for the world is demonstrated by people living out of their marriage or singleness.  For the first fifteen hundred years of the church singleness was considered the preferred state and the best way to serve Christ. Singles sat at the front of the church. Marrieds were sent to the back. Things changed after the Reformation in 1517, when single people were sent to the back and marrieds moved to the front — ​at least among Protestants. Scripture, however, refers to both statuses as weighty, meaningful vocations. In this podcast I talk about how Christian marriage and singleness is. Read more.

Church Culture Revolution: Part 4 – EH Leader Podcast

In this week’s podcast, I expand on the fourth quality of a church culture that deeply changes lives: healthy community: Slowed-Down Spirituality Integrity in Leadership Beneath-the-Surface Discipleship Healthy Community Passionate Marriage and Singleness Every Person in Full-Time Ministry In a church culture that changes lives, people recognize that there is a disconnect when those who claim to love Jesus are experienced by others as defensive, judgmental, unapproachable, and unsafe. Leaders prayerfully and thoughtfully model how to do relationships differently in the new family of Jesus. In this podcast, I offer six insights to building a healthy, transformative community: Be careful to serve and develop your people, and not use them. Be diligent to confront the elephants in the room. Be intentional to teach new skills. Be vigilant of how power is exercised. Be mindful of the weaker, more vulnerable. Be aware that you will experience betrayal and pain. Once again, let me invite you. Read more.

Church Culture Revolution: Part 3 – EH Leader Podcast

 In this week’s podcast, I expand on the third quality of a church culture that deeply changes lives: beneath-the-surface discipleship: Slowed-Down Spirituality Integrity in Leadership Beneath-the-Surface Discipleship Healthy Community Passionate Marriage and Singleness Every Person in Full-Time Ministry In a church culture that deeply changes lives, no one assumes people are maturing on the basis of activities such as church attendance, small group involvement, and serving. Instead, they understand maturity is the fruit of the slow, hard work of following the crucified Jesus. This podcast explores the four biblical areas that leaders teach and embody to help their people break free from destructive patterns and live differently in the new family of Jesus: breaking the power of our families of origin, living in vulnerability and brokenness, receiving the gift of limits, and embracing grief and loss. Remember: We cannot change what we are unaware of.  Let me invite you to download our free. Read more.