Leadership
51 conversations where the hosts get into leadership.
51 conversations
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Is Jesus a good leader? The 10 qualities, part one
- Is Jesus a good leader by modern standards?
Mike runs a vague internet search for 'the 10 essential qualities of an effective leader' and the room grades Jesus. 1.
From No. 602 · Relationship Counseling
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Leadership training for church leaders: get a business manager
- Do people who lead churches need leadership training?
Mike's real question: to what extent do people need leadership training to lead churches? Ben gives two distinct answers.
From No. 602 · Relationship Counseling
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Recovery ministries, charismatic experience, and sustainable faith
- Can recovery ministries replace a chemical high with a spiritual high, and is that sustainable?
A long pastoral discussion starting from recovery ministries, which tend to come from charismatic backgrounds: the risk of trading a chemical high for event-driven spiritual highs.
From No. 555 · The Aslan Wears Prada
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The Nephilim question
- Who are the Nephilim?
The big question: who are the Nephilim? Boova introduces it — he keeps stalling at Genesis 6 in his read-throughs and a family member asked him about it.
From No. 499 · The Legacy List
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The Steve Austin story: should a struggling man lead youth?
- Should a man carrying this much — mental-health crisis, medication change, financial strain, a wife unable to work — be pastoring youth?
A host reads the story of Steve Austin, a former youth pastor, suicide survivor, and mental-health advocate whose book 'Hiding in the Pew' addressed mental illness in the church, who came out as queer and was found dead about two weeks later.
From No. 433 · The Heavy
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Dear LFTP: the 16-year-old doubting her Catholic faith
- How can I convince my devout Catholic parents that my agnosticism is not just a phase?
- Which one went to heaven: the nice dad who skipped church or the devout church lady? (Both died at 40.)
A 16-year-old from a devout Roman Catholic family writes that she's never felt religious, now identifies as agnostic, and is crushed by having to lie to her parents.
From No. 170 · Can a Christian Be a Pessimist?
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The danger of a humble and effective pope
- What is the potential problem with an effective and humble pope?
A host asks: what is the potential problem with an effective and humble pope? Noting the positive reaction to Pope Francis — humility, ground-level outreach, less hierarchy,…
From No. 140 · The Mustard-Stain Prayer
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The 10 qualities, part two: adaptability, empowerment, vision, decisiveness, learning
6. Adaptability: 'I will submit Jesus did none of these things' - crowds try to kill him and he walks out; they try to make him king and he eludes them; but adaptability implies…
From No. 602 · Relationship Counseling
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Pope-style advice: gospel influence requires sacrifice
Remembering his forgotten Pope-style advice, a host argues that gospel influence in other people's lives requires sacrifice of time, talents, or money - giving the example of youth leaders who give up drinking entirely to stay above reproach with kids.
From No. 562 · Enter the McCormick II
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Twelve stumbling blocks, part two: lifestyle, scandals, hypocrisy
The hosts cover stumbling blocks two through four. Two: the lavish lifestyle of pastors and leaders — know your surroundings, model simplicity.
From No. 444 · Fake Persecution and Tripping Millennials
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Grace for leaders in uncharted waters
The hosts argue everyone from school superintendents to medical professionals is operating in uncharted waters with the same public information, and that Christians especially…
From No. 398 · Thus It Begins…COVID
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Church people use the church for power — and leaders get hurt too
Responding to the thread's claim that church people use the church for power and influence and that leaders are abused by congregants, the hosts concede humans are humans but push…
From No. 371 · 40 and Out
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Leaders, platforms, and Jesus' enigmatic speech
Discussion continues: people who want to lead must address everyone, not just their own camp; a one-on-one conversation allows nuance that a blanket post to 2,000 people doesn't.
From No. 360 · Divided We Thrive
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Hope for public schooling: if not you, then who?
- In what ways do you look at public schooling and coaching with hope — and where is caution warranted?
Asked where he finds hope in public schooling, Gordon says every job is a ministry and divine moments show up daily; the leader's mentality is "if not you, then who?"
From No. 473 · Do Something With Your Life, Gordon
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The lying spirit as judgment, and why the story is there
- Why does the Micaiah episode exist in the narrative if it changes nothing?
The hosts press further: the lying spirit is Yahweh's judgment on a king who only wants compliant prophets, ending in Ahab's death at Ramoth-gilead.
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News: registered sex offender on church staff in Texas
- Should a convicted sex offender hold a titled, paid ministry position on a church staff?
The hosts take up a news story: Chuck Adair, a lifetime registered sex offender once listed on America's Most Wanted for running off with an underage parishioner, is now a…
From No. 552 · Affirming the Nasty Part
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Pastor-burnout research: congregants choosing politics over faith
- Should pastors step away from ministry because their people follow politics over the gospel?
Ben reads new research that a majority of pastors think about stepping away from ministry, with concern that Christians identify more with political views than their faith.
From No. 483 · Ahhh Hell
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Proverbs 12:25 and the two hotel managers
- Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad — secular or Solomon?
The game continues: 'Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad' is Solomon, Proverbs 12:25, leading into a reflection that an encouraging word can shake someone out of internal anxiety.
From No. 474 · The Details Are Super Important
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The cop and the ex-dealer meet in a leadership class
Aaron, a 14-year undercover narcotics officer, and Robbie, who dealt drugs and gang-banged from age 13 and did prison time, met in a leadership class at Newton Church of the Way.
From No. 328 · Discover Hope 5:17
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Sluggard mark 8: leadership, boundaries, and the face in the oven
- Is it wrong to set ultimatums with people who refuse to change, and what is the difference between an ultimatum and a boundary?
Mark 8: the sluggard will not become a leader. The hosts part company with the article's hyper-spiritual conclusion — ordinary obedience does not need a fresh spiritual revelation…
From No. 447 · November 1 2021
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Dear LFTP: the assistant who keeps calling her boss a brown noser
- How do I deal with an assistant who keeps calling me a brown noser in front of others?
A listener asks how to handle an assistant who has publicly called her a brown noser three times. The hosts say confront it directly and immediately rather than waiting for the…
From No. 186 · The Passion Rewatched
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Reaction to Trump's vulgar comments about other countries
- How should Christians react to the president's vulgar language about other countries?
The hosts react to news that President Trump called some countries 'assholes' (the reported 'shithole countries' remark).
From No. 338 · Following the News
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Charisma in leaders: could you start a cult to set people straight?
- Is it wrong to start a cult on a false end-times premise in order to gather gullible people and then set them straight?
A host (speaker-2) poses the question of whether it would be wrong to start a cult on a false end-times premise in order to gather gullible people and then set them straight; the…
From No. 253 · Habits of Highly Miserable People
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Hard question: why do bad things happen to good people?
- Why does God keep doing bad things to good people, and why do good things keep happening to bad people — why is there pain, suffering, and death if God is loving and all-powerful?
The co-host addressed on air as 'Buva' brings questions nonbelievers keep asking him at work: why bad things happen to good people, why the wicked prosper, why a loving all-powerful God allows hunger, disease, and death.
From No. 224 · Seven Lies Christians Tell