Pastor workload, hard texts, and the gospel in every passage

Dan, drawing on years inside a Colorado megachurch, says the lead pastors are in meetings all day and rarely have time for deep sermon prep — teams collaborate on the messages. Mike calls it foolhardy to make the lead pastor run both the teaching and the business: when the heating bill depends on attendance, the temptation is to pull the repentance punches. Ben closes the thread with a question he heard on a podcast about Ananias and Sapphira — do you teach it when visitors are coming? — and his rule: if it is next in the passage, you teach it, because the gospel is in every passage and finding it is the skill.