In This Episode:
• Georgia Baptist Discipleship averages 16,000+ interactions monthly
• Georgia Baptist Discipleship Facebook has grown from 60 to 3400+ members
• Two ways to win FREE products and gift cards!
• Implementing an intentional culture and an identifiable disciple-making plan are foundational (Broadcast: Brandon Guindon: Disciple-making Culture).
• Why is strategic planning necessary for long-term church health (Broadcast: Leo Endel-Small Church Strategic Planning).
• Keys to take advantage of significant energy & build attendance bumps (Broadcast: Levi Skipper- Riding the Waves of Attendance)
• Challenge to train and empower lay leaders in 2023 (Broadcast: Steve Parr interview)
• Ways to create a culture where everyone feels welcome and included (Broadcast: Mark Hearn interview).
• Best practices: healthy churches need healthy pastors. Jim Putman shares how his pride almost upended his ministry. Jim also has the BEST quote of the year… the difference between wrestling and wrastling!
• What leaders can do to reverse the trend of not being able to replace staff and fill ministry responsibilities.
• Barna's study showed that 42% of pastors surveyed considered quitting, NOT just leaving but quitting.
• 400-500 churches in GA without a pastor, and this is echoed around the nation
• Virtual Reality discipleship. An example of leaders thinking beyond borders to thrive in the future church (Broadcast: Mike Wynn & team, PJ Dunn, Carl Johnson, Virtual Reality Discipleship)
Lightning Round:
• Best book read in 2022, in addition to the Bible?
• Essential leadership qualities needed to win in the future church?
• What was the top struggle you noticed in 2022 among pastors/staff?
• Least talked about topic in discipleship that should be a headline?
• Most creative solution and the problem it solved?
*Listing with links to all topics and guests:
Emotional Health: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdRpsYWku5g
Ride the Waves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYksbhH_8oU
Health in Disciple-Making: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6mqBQ4NDVA
Disciple-Making Culture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGH54bjKFQk
Current Church Trends: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYq4_rYJDVI
Small Church Strategic Planning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEM4-Z_x5aE
Calling Out the Called: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d07y1JF1A8
VR Discipleship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxo4RPWYmyE