December 16, 2025 • 33 mins
New chapter, fresh playbook. We close the long trek through John and step into Acts with a simple goal: translate the early church’s momentum into practical leadership you can use this quarter. Between holiday chuckles and a milestone anniversary, we trace how Luke documents a team that loses its founder’s physical presence and still accelerates—with planning, empowerment, and courage.
We break down the structure of Acts and zoom in on three big takeaways. First, succession planning isn’t a luxury; it’s mission insurance. Acts 1 shows a team staying put, praying, naming replacements, and protecting continuity. We unpack why 70% of organizations still avoid real succession—fear of losing control, time pressure, or anxiety about new strategies—and how to build a plan that preserves the mission while giving future leaders room to adapt tactics. Second, Pentecost becomes a modern operating principle: empowerment beats busyness. Annual retreats, quarterly huddles, and clear roadmaps energize teams to move from cautious to public, from talk to execution.
Finally, we sit with a small but potent detail: Jesus’s brothers appear in the upper room after years of doubt. That’s a masterclass in discernment. Some teammates are late adopters who turn into anchors; others resist the core and need a gracious off‑ramp. We share ways to tell the difference, then show how to turn brainstorms into action plans with owners, deadlines, and visible follow‑through. Because nothing erodes trust like a meeting that produces no change, and nothing scales culture faster than promises kept in public.
If you lead a church, a crew, or a company, this conversation connects Scripture’s leadership DNA to your next planning session—succession, empowerment, alignment, and accountability. Subscribe, share with a leader who needs clarity, and leave a review telling us the one meeting you’ll add to protect your mission next year.
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SPEAKER_03 (00:12):
Oh now yeah already welcome welcome welcome well guy
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Tim what's going on goodnessit's uh episode one hundred and
one oh one it's like we'restarting fresh oh my goodness
one hundred and one is that goodthat's very exciting it's like a
new chapter it is it's like anew chapter so thank you so much
for joining us again this weekyou know it's uh getting close
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to Christmas like a week away itis getting close to Christmas
can you believe it I I it's hardto believe yeah but I gotta
shout out to my pride becausetomorrow is our 48th anniversary
fun times fun times uh well yeah48 years 48 years I mean very
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impressive we met inkindergarten got married in
third grade exactly right pastlife you know you're only 23
like me right that's yeah that'sexactly right so yeah um yeah
well congratulations thank youso much that's awesome thank you
so much uh congratulations tothe missus because I know she'll
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be listening so yeah she is umshe definitely needs
congratulations yeah yeah yeahyeah well I I congratulate my
wife all the time so that's goodthat's really good I'm I'm
behind you though you know wegot it's almost it's almost time
for our year-end dad jokeextravaganza so any of our
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listeners out there please sendyour dad jokes uh they don't
even have to relate to newyear's just anything that you
can think of yeah we startedgetting some dad jokes in that's
pretty exciting so yeah and andum we've got a lot of Christmas
dad jokes here in the next twoweeks but on New Year's let's
see it's gonna be the 30th whichis the 34th New Year's Eve Eve
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right um we'll do a complete dadjoke extravaganza and uh it's
gonna be so much fun so if youlike dad jokes hang out with us
if you don't well we'll see youafter the first of the year
exactly right oh so it works itworks doesn't it it works really
really good well can you knowone of the big things here and I
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know you got dad jokes justgoing over there but I've got to
say we made it through John.
We made it through the book ofJohn yes it only took us 48
weeks yeah we're gonna start thebook of Acts today and it's
amazing wow yeah that is reallygood and uh the book of Acts is
such an amazing book about thehistory of the early church and
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um just how it all came aboutabout Paul meeting Luke and then
Luke uh following you know hewas a disciple of Paul and
traveled with him and and thenhe he was a doctor he he was a
brilliant man and and then hedid a lot of research and uh he
wrote the book of Luke and thenthe sequel was the book of Acts
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and so the book of Acts is likethe best written record we have
of the life of the early churchum after the ascension of Jesus
and uh it it got some amazingleadership um principles there.
Um you can break down the bookof Acts into some categories so
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you know you have chapter onethrough normally six or so is is
really focused on Peter.
And then you have uh chapter sixand seven is uh Stephen and the
martyr of the you know my kidsright now are going six yeah I
know I know that's how it is andthen I've got my brain trained
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right and then uh Philip if youhave kids you understand just
went down what that down exactlyright we had to work that in
just for our younger audienceanyway so and then um uh Philip
now in chapter six we'll get tothat um hopefully today maybe
next week but in chapter sixhuge leadership principles
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because the church was growingso rapidly that the apostles
couldn't do all the work um andso they empowered others seven
others and the people pickedthem to can carry on a certain
part of the job and um and sothat's a significant shift in
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the story in the early churchand as a result of empowering
others to do leadership thechurch continued to grow.
So we'll get to that and theleadership principles about
that.
And that's really in chapter sixin in chapter seven um you have
uh Philip um in chapter you knowsix seven eight that there and
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then you have uh apostle Paul isuh introduced in chapter really
at the end of chapter eightreally chapter nine uh you have
uh another story about uh Peterand then almost the rest of the
book is uh focused on themissionary journeys of Paul and
so those are that's the basicoutline of that and we're gonna
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focus on really the first partof that book today and the
second part of that or the lastpart of the book next week um
but we can just get right intoit after we have a couple of dad
jokes you know of course I waslike wow he's gonna go straight
into it we're gonna go straightinto it no crazy no that's just
so random there's no way I'mgonna do that.
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Well hey if you're just joiningus just so you know and if
you've been hanging out with usthe first hundred episodes you
know but if it's your firstepisode uh what we do is we talk
a little bit about the biblicaltalk a little bit about the
leadership principles that youcan take away from that and then
we throw dad jokes in because welike dad jokes we can and we can
and it's our show right so uhyeah so welcome yeah so you know
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it's it's winter time and up inthe northern part of the country
there's a lot of snow I have asister who lives in Colorado and
and uh you know they had snow inSan Antonio my goodness that is
crazy but anyway so here we gowhere do snowmen keep their
money where do snowmen keeptheir money I don't know in snow
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banks okay I'll get that oneyeah that's good there we go uh
okay here here's another onehere we go um what do you sing
at a snowman's birthday party umdon't know freeze a jolly good
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fellow yeah that's that'sanother one okay okay here's one
last one then we'll get to thebook of Acts unless you have
some oh I mean I I didn't okayso so this time of year most
people you know some peopledon't put up their Christmas
tree till like right beforeChristmas a lot of people
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already have their trees up youknow it's middle of December um
so what's a Christmas tree'sfavorite candy ooh favorite
candy yeah what's a Christmastree's favorite candy um good
question ornaments all rightokay let's go on why'd the tree
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go to the barber this is apretty simple I think I've heard
this one why did the tree go tothe barber I don't know it
needed a trim it needed a trimone more what do you think what
do you get when you cross asnowman and a dog don't know
frostbite I need some buttonsover here okay good all right no
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problem so now you know why weneed you to send us some dad
jokes you just wait until youjust wait until uh Christmas I
mean New Year's Eve show yeah umokay so yeah we we uh I told
this joke to my mother-in-law umlast night she was over at our
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house wrapping presents and umso what do Santa's elves listen
to while they're working um uhrap music I knew that one I
think I've shared that last yeartoo yeah okay yeah I like that
one okay so let's get into Actschapter one so let's just talk a
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little bit about the the howthat's the whole story of that
uh and so we see at the end ofthe gospel of you know Matthew
Mark Luke and John uh that Jesuswas uh crucified he was
resurrected he appeared topeople he was on the earth for
40 days and then on the 40th dayum he gathered his disciples
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together he gave them some lastinstructions say hey wait in
Jerusalem until you know thepower of the Spirit comes upon
you they didn't really know whatthat meant they were still
thinking that he was going toestablish an earthly kingdom
overthrow the Roman governmentthose kind of things they really
didn't comprehend um what thethe mission was or the vision of
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Jesus they really didn't at thatpoint but they were obedient to
that and so they uh went to aroom there in Jerusalem and they
uh prayed and searched thescriptures for ten days now
here's a here's a let's juststop right there and and talk
about the leadership principlein that because we see from the
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the the biblical story inMatthew Mark Luke and John that
Jesus with was with these twelvemen now there's eleven because
Judas uh hanged himself and soin chapter one we see them
replacing Judas um with anotherperson and um and so you have
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these twelve people and um Jesushad been training them uh
teaching them empowering themand give him a specific mission
he he had done that for threeyears and I know we've talked
about it on the show before butJesus had a secession plan.
He knew he wasn't going to bethere forever he wanted his
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ministry mission to continueafter he was gone and and so I
know that you've dealed withthis Tim a lot in your
leadership seminars when youspeak around the country so
could you share just a littlebit about the importance of a
succession plan.
I know that's big in the church.
I know some churches don'treally think about that because
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they think the pastor's going tobe there forever but it's so
important in businesses andother things you know you've got
to have some a plan for what'sgoing to happen after.
What has going to happen if okayso just jump in there and share
it.
SPEAKER_00 (11:56):
Yeah I think that uh you know I I get this and we we
talk about this and in all ourassociations and and we've
talked about it the church andall this stuff it's is to have
that succession plan in placebecause you have to have that
continuation of leadership rightand and that mission protection.
So this is our mission so howare we going to carry that
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through you know and you've seenthis many times with big
companies where um you knowsomebody starts a company and
then next thing you know it'lltake Steve Jobs right he started
the company had a mission he hada vision he he did this and then
ended up getting voted out andthe mission sort of wavered so I
mean somebody had to carry thatthrough it went down different
paths.
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But if you if you start yoursuccession planning early enough
then you get people that thatknow where the ship's headed
that are on the same page ofwhere the ship's headed and you
know if something happens wherewhere you know you need to take
a break or you go on vacationfor a month to travel the Amazon
or walk across the mountains youknow on mountaintops for a
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couple months you know youyou're not going to be side
railed and stuff.
And then and I think that's oneof the things that most people
do especially in associations wedo that is is we don't know
where where the ship's goingafter a lot of our associations
they're one year.
You know you sign up you're onthe the the board or the
committee as the chair for oneyear.
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I'm just rolling well I've stillgot you know another few months
of uh being the education chairfor NHB right and but at that
same time we've we're I've gotthe two other people that are
behind me part of my meetings.
They're part of where we'regoing because it's it's a
continued process.
It was a continued process thethe leaders before me and the
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leaders after you and thatthat's helps you c you know not
lose the momentum not have tostart over every time that you
have a change of leadership andI think that's so important to
keep that so you can keep thatthat that that pipeline filled
and and to know that everybody'sworking towards that bigger
goal.
SPEAKER_03 (14:02):
So yeah and so um how many times in your speaking
have you run across companiesthat don't have a succession oh
I'd probably say it's it's wellinto uh 70 plus percent of the
time yeah I mean most people donot have a succession plan in
place.
SPEAKER_00 (14:21):
I talk to them every time about it.
SPEAKER_03 (14:23):
And do you have a reason is there a consistent
reason why do they think thatjust do they is it like well I'm
gonna be here forever or youknow I don't know if I trust
people enough to carry on at thesame quality of work or the same
mission or is there a consistentreason why that doesn't happen?
SPEAKER_00 (14:41):
Well I think it's multiple I think sometimes
people are afraid to give uptheir their inner thoughts
because when you when you createa succession plan you sort of
got to lay all the eggs on thetable and say here's where we're
going right and a lot of peopledon't have that they they feel
like they're losing their powerand this goes to delegation this
goes to leadership and all thatacross the board but I mean and
and sometimes people just don'thave time because once you lay
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out a succession plan well thenit's your job to mentor your job
to actively bring these peopleinto all your meetings and make
sure they're part of everything.
And some people don't like thatyou know they just want to get
it done get done get on down theroad and and be there and and uh
so I think there's a there's ayou know multitude of things
where they don't want to but I Iwill tell you that most people
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do not have a succession plan.
Most of the associations that Iwork with most of the uh the
companies I work with that we wethat's one of the biggest things
we talk about leadership is Ineed to come back and and help
you guys put this successionplan together because uh this is
something you have to have inplace going forward to be
successful.
I mean you can be successful butto carry on that mission you
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have to have it in place.
SPEAKER_03 (15:52):
And so there's one thing about mission there's one
thing a a different thing aboutstrategy.
Yeah right and so maybe therethe people that don't do this
are concerned maybe I want thesame strategy.
I want the same you know focusand you know you're gonna have a
different person come in um whocould be very very intelligent
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they've been in the company along time but they look at it a
little different so theirstrategy might be the mission
might be the same.
SPEAKER_00 (16:21):
Right.
SPEAKER_03 (16:22):
But the strategy might be a little different and
people just might be hesitant tosay no I want everything the
exact same.
Right.
Okay.
Um and that's unfortunatebecause you've got some great
companies that if you don't havea great succession plan, uh
they're not going to last verylong after the main person steps
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aside.
SPEAKER_00 (16:43):
Yeah.
And I think that as long asyou're you're setting it up
right, succession plans aredesigned to get the fundamentals
in there, right?
To keep the fundamental successthat you've had in place, you
know, everybody's gonna bringtheir own personality to it.
You can add things you canchange things a little bit right
but as long as you have thatcore going forward the company's
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going to be heading in the rightdirection.
Then you bring in some of yourstuff that you uh you do and you
test the waters with new thingsbecause you don't want to put
everybody in a box you know uhI'm I'm on the ladder on some
stuff and I'm already working ontrying to revamp a whole lot of
stuff that I have coming up insome of my uh positions.
Uh but I mean that's what I amI'm a change agent.
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I like change.
I like I see things that areslightly broke and I'm gonna
work on fixing them.
But I'm not gonna just implodethe whole thing and rebuild it.
I'm gonna change what is therethat's broken but we're still
gonna have our forward printforward moving principles that
we're gonna stay in they'regonna stay intact.
SPEAKER_03 (17:45):
Yeah.
What a great a great uh uhlesson right there.
So so that's really in chapterone in in the book of Acts so we
have a succession plan they theyfollow what Jesus said they stay
in Jerusalem they pray readscripture and and then in Acts
chapter two we see a a verypowerful uh event happen on the
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day of Pentecost which was ahuge Jewish uh holiday anyway
and we read that the Holy Spirituh came on them with power um
and and so tongues of firetongues of fire and um and so
that's a whole lesson that wedon't have time to get into
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right now but here's the thingafter that uh event um the they
were empowered to really sharethe message um publicly uh
before they were hiding in aroom um they were concerned
about their own lives uh butthey were empowered and there
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was 120 of them we read um andso the two real principles I
want to uh get to uh in our timeremaining uh with with chapter
two and and that is how many uhtimes are let's just say how
important it is to get yourpeople together to to to pump
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them up to equip them to empowerthem to just uh you know rah rah
rah thank you so much for whatyou're doing let's go out and
make next year better um I knowsome companies do that really
really well and other companiesdon't do that um and and so in
your experience with dealingwith you know contractors home
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builders around the country umyou know you've you deal with
some really big companies andsome small companies um how
consistent is it about having alike an annual meeting of your
employees or your staff oranything like that I remember we
used to have an annual retreatfor our staff yeah and we would
say okay this is kind of wherewe're going the next year and I
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would have my Sermons plannedout for a year in advance.
I didn't write them, but I hadall the themes and everything in
a year in advance.
I'd give it to my staff and say,hey, this is where we're going.
Let's talk about how all this isgonna, you know, how we're gonna
do different things at likeChristmas time, Easter time,
what's gonna happen in thesummer.
So everybody's on the same page.
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So in your corporation, in yourbuilding uh experience, how does
that work in the building umbusiness?
SPEAKER_00 (20:27):
You know, everybody has a desire to have that
organization in place to be ableto go through those oh quarterly
meetings, yearly meetings, andall that.
But a lot of times it justreally depends on what time they
have.
You know, I see a lot of thingsthat get picked over because
we're busy, we don't have timeto do that.
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You know, if it ain't broke,don't fix it.
We're moving.
I don't need to work onmarketing dollars, I don't need
to work on my website on and Ineed to work on meetings, and we
don't have to have raw-rah.
We don't have time for thoseraw-rah meetings.
We just need to go.
We need to uh do do it.
But then ultimately, you know,the the business looks like a
roller coaster sometimes forsome companies as well.
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Now, I'm not saying some peoplego from from zero to you know
the moon, right?
You know, they're they're stillgoing up to this day, but at the
same time, a lot of people theyhit like the we're we're in a
slow time right now with comingoff the government shutdown a
while back and interest ratesnot knowing where they're at
with the Fed and and uh soeverybody's sort of coasting
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through the holidays.
So now everybody's banking onfirst year.
Oh, we're gonna go, but I meanwhat if it doesn't?
You know, then you've got tostart, you know, pre-planning a
little bit.
And I think that's why it'simportant to have these
meetings, figure out whereyou're at, figure out what you
need to do to move forward,figure out who's in charge of
doing what, not just uh, youknow, we always say it, we said
on the show many times, beproactive, not reactive.
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And I think that's one of thebiggest things that you want to
do in business.
SPEAKER_03 (21:55):
So yeah, and so if you have not had a calendar
planning for you know 2026,gosh, it's already 26, right?
It is uh if you don't have thatand you're the head of the
company or maybe you're vicechair or something like that,
um, I I would encourage you tosomehow um someday in 2026 have
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a a one-day retreat, one daysomething, half a day something,
uh off site if possible, just toget your people together,
encourage them.
Um you know, encouragement goesa long way.
And uh they might not have anynew information, but just to
help people realize howimportant they are, how valuable
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they are uh to the organization,and uh say, hey, no, this is
important.
We're gonna get together, we'regonna have a staff retreat, um,
we're gonna have a corporatemeeting or whatever, and we're
just gonna reemphasize um whatwe're doing.
Uh and so everybody's on thesame page.
And I just want to say thank youfor doing a great job last year.
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And I'm not talking about aChristmas party, you know,
that's just that's kind of afun.
No, this is like a uh brah rob,thank you so much.
Uh keep doing a great job, anduh let's make next year even
better than this year.
And and uh you might not havehad that planned yet for 2026,
but I encourage you at somepoint to put that on the
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calendar.
Uh there will be benefits fromit.
As long as you keep doing ityear after year, people look
forward to that, uh, that'll bereally, really good.
SPEAKER_00 (23:36):
Yeah.
Yeah, I I agree.
And and you know, and there'sways to go about it to make it
fun, you know, don't make itmonotonous where people are just
dread to go.
I've I've been through some ofthose where people are just
rolling their eyes, right?
SPEAKER_03 (23:49):
So, oh my gosh, when is this gonna be over?
SPEAKER_00 (23:52):
So, I mean, really, if if you go through and and you
bring the information and andand I I going through this
within one of my associations,and and every year we have a
brainstorming and where we'regonna go and and a leadership
retreat and all this stuff, butthen we don't do anything with
the information we did lastyear, and the year before we
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keep having one, but then wedon't do the information.
So I'm working on trying tocompile the last four years that
we've done this and actuallymake something where we can have
an action plan to move forwardon this.
And uh, so I've taken it uponmyself to uh volunteer that uh
to put that in place because I Iuh you know I do this with
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companies, but I'm like, allright, we're doing it in this
association, and I do this forcompanies, but I always have an
action plan.
It's not just brainstorming, butwhat are we gonna do with this
information?
SPEAKER_03 (24:45):
Yeah, so if you have a brainstorming session, uh an
annual meeting or whatever, andyou get a lot of great ideas,
and you literally do nothingwith it.
You talk about losing trust inyour people.
Yeah.
Um they'll think that was awaste of my time.
I'm just uh I, you know, I mightgo next year, but my mind's not
gonna be in the meeting.
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Um, and so that's uh such animportant thing to have those
goal setting meetings or havethose kind of things and then
follow up uh afterwards and holdpeople accountable to get stuff
done.
SPEAKER_00 (25:19):
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And and you know, we we did thesame thing from surveys, you
know, these surveys I used topartner up with a survey company
and send out these employeesatisfaction surveys and
customer satisfaction surveys,and they wouldn't do anything
with information.
I'm like, it's worse to do thesurvey than it is not to do
anything and pretend it neverhappened.
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Yes.
Because now people are expectingit.
Yeah, they're expecting noaction, then it's it's worse
than what it yeah, if it justwould have gone, oh, okay.
Okay.
SPEAKER_03 (25:49):
Well, let's get to this last principle in uh Acts
chapter, this is really in Actschapter one, but it's at the
beginning of the book, and so wesee something very, very
significant um in um in Actschapter one.
And um, what we read there isthat when the uh disciples,
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after they left, after Jesusascended, uh they went uh back
to Jerusalem, um, they were inthe upper room, all the
disciples were there.
And this is what we read inchapter one, verse 14, and this
is very, very significant.
Um, all these were with oneaccord were devoting themselves
to prayer together with thewomen and Mary, the mother of
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Jesus, and then the last threewords, and his brothers.
His brothers, huh?
His brothers.
So when we read the Christmasstory, it does say that G that
Mary had the her firstborn son.
There's several places in theBible that talk about and give
the names of Jesus' brothers.
Well, the reason that's sosignificant is because back in
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John chapter seven, verse five,we read these words.
And and then um uh they one ofthe brothers says, uh, uh if you
do these things, show yourselfto the world.
And then it says this in versefive.
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For not even his brothersbelieved in him.
So we don't know exactly whenthat happened, uh, that his
brothers, I mean, they grew upwith him, but they didn't
believe he was the Messiah.
Um, and then and it's very clearhere in John chapter 5.
So we don't know how many yearsof Jesus' ministry that was.
We can't, it's hard to tell.
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But then after the resurrection,they were in the room with the
other disciples because theybelieved in what he uh he was
doing.
They believed in the mission.
So so the leadership principleis, you know, some of your
people might it might take thema little longer to get on board
with the vision and the mission.
Now, some people you just gottalet go because they just don't
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want to follow it.
But there's some people thatthat are good, good people.
SPEAKER_00 (28:03):
Right.
SPEAKER_03 (28:04):
Uh they're just a little slower to to say, oh
yeah, I get it now.
I understand why this is soimportant.
And um, and that's exactly whatwe see here in um with Jesus
Brothers.
And so the leadership principleis you've got to be very
discerning, wise to know whichis what.
I mean, which person is itthat's just not catching on and
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you just need to let them go.
And what person is just gonnaslow, and once they're once they
catch on, they're gonna be huge,huge supporter of yours.
And it just takes a wise leaderto know the difference because
you don't want to let go of thewrong people.
Um, you know, I've made thatmistake.
Uh, you know, sometimes I'veI've had to let people go for
reasons, and it's like, mm,shouldn't have done that.
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Um, but um that just rightthere, and and uh so the Jesus'
brothers were huge followers.
Um once they saw the mission, umuh they were they were just
massive supporters.
So anyway, any any comment on onthat?
It's just uh you gotta have bediscerning, you know?
SPEAKER_00 (29:10):
No comment.
SPEAKER_03 (29:10):
No comment.
Okay.
Let's just leave it right there.
Let's just leave it right thereand get some bad jokes because
we're almost out of time.
SPEAKER_00 (29:17):
We are we're almost out of time.
SPEAKER_03 (29:19):
So let's just get some bad jokes in here.
Um okay.
Why did the tree need to take anap?
SPEAKER_02 (29:30):
Uh probably haven't heard this one.
I have not, I don't think.
For rest.
For rest.
SPEAKER_00 (29:45):
You know, this one I I had pulled up as a joke, but
it actually made me uh um uhthink about it.
It was like logical and a jokeat the same time.
SPEAKER_03 (29:57):
Oh, really?
SPEAKER_00 (29:58):
Why is December such a cool or cold month?
SPEAKER_03 (30:04):
Uh if you're in Australia, it's not, so I don't
know.
It's true.
It's true.
Okay, why?
SPEAKER_00 (30:10):
Because it has burr in the name.
Oh gosh.
Yeah, that's definitely but Ithought about it.
I'm like, January, December,November, October.
July?
July is not a cold month, right?
So anyway.
SPEAKER_03 (30:31):
Well, let's just say is there any um any other dad
jokes that we can um that we canjust kind of throw out today?
Um, here we go.
Uh getting close to Christmas.
So here's here's a Christmasone.
Okay.
One of my favorite uh Christmascookies is gingerbread.
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Gingerbread cookies.
Like gingerbread man, you know,those kind of things,
gingerbread lake, whatever.
I just like gingerbread cookies.
So, what does a gingerbread manuse when he breaks his leg?
SPEAKER_02 (31:07):
I think I know it.
Say it.
Iceling?
Oh, that's close.
How about a candy cane?
Oh I don't know.
SPEAKER_00 (31:16):
I think I like mine better.
Icling.
Icling.
Iceling.
Because you patch it with icing,so it's iceling.
SPEAKER_03 (31:23):
I I get it.
I get it.
Do I need to explain it again?
I don't like it, but I get it.
SPEAKER_00 (31:29):
Oh, I got one more from you.
Okay, why are Christmas treesbad at knitting?
SPEAKER_03 (31:37):
Because they lost all their needles.
SPEAKER_00 (31:39):
They always drop their needles.
SPEAKER_02 (31:41):
There we go.
SPEAKER_00 (31:44):
All right.
One more from you, and thenwe'll let these fine people get
out of here.
SPEAKER_03 (31:49):
Okay, so uh went to the store, you know, it's uh
some people like cranberries.
Um I like uh I like cranberries,you know, Thanksgiving,
Christmas, whatever.
But I dropped a really heavy boxof berries on my foot yesterday.
Right.
Yeah.
And it's so bad I can barelywalk.
(32:18):
Oh, yeah, that's definitely asleeper.
SPEAKER_00 (32:21):
Please send in some dad jokes.
All righty.
Well, save them up.
We got lots more dad jokescoming up.
SPEAKER_03 (32:27):
So we do.
SPEAKER_00 (32:29):
Yes.
Okay.
All right.
Well, thank you guys for uhhanging out with us.
We finally made it through John.
I'm so I feel so liberated thatwe made it through.
SPEAKER_02 (32:36):
Yeah, episode 101.
Thank you for starting this newchapter with us.
SPEAKER_00 (32:41):
And uh we roll into uh you know we almost timed it
perfect going into the new year,right?
So it would have been good.
But other than that, check usout biblical leadership
show.com.
Send us your dad jokes as weprepare for our New Year's Eve
show.
New Year's Eve Eve show.
And uh other than that, Dr.
Pete, take us out.
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Happy anniversary.
Yeah, thank you so much.
Hey, thank you so much.
Make it a great day.
Make it a great day.
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Well
Oh now yeah already welcome welcome welcome well guy
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Tim what's going on goodnessit's uh episode one hundred and
one oh one it's like we'restarting fresh oh my goodness
one hundred and one is that goodthat's very exciting it's like a
new chapter it is it's like anew chapter so thank you so much
for joining us again this weekyou know it's uh getting close
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to Christmas like a week away itis getting close to Christmas
can you believe it I I it's hardto believe yeah but I gotta
shout out to my pride becausetomorrow is our 48th anniversary
fun times fun times uh well yeah48 years 48 years I mean very
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impressive we met inkindergarten got married in
third grade exactly right pastlife you know you're only 23
like me right that's yeah that'sexactly right so yeah um yeah
well congratulations thank youso much that's awesome thank you
so much uh congratulations tothe missus because I know she'll
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be listening so yeah she is umshe definitely needs
congratulations yeah yeah yeahyeah well I I congratulate my
wife all the time so that's goodthat's really good I'm I'm
behind you though you know wegot it's almost it's almost time
for our year-end dad jokeextravaganza so any of our
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listeners out there please sendyour dad jokes uh they don't
even have to relate to newyear's just anything that you
can think of yeah we startedgetting some dad jokes in that's
pretty exciting so yeah and andum we've got a lot of Christmas
dad jokes here in the next twoweeks but on New Year's let's
see it's gonna be the 30th whichis the 34th New Year's Eve Eve
(02:29):
right um we'll do a complete dadjoke extravaganza and uh it's
gonna be so much fun so if youlike dad jokes hang out with us
if you don't well we'll see youafter the first of the year
exactly right oh so it works itworks doesn't it it works really
really good well can you knowone of the big things here and I
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know you got dad jokes justgoing over there but I've got to
say we made it through John.
We made it through the book ofJohn yes it only took us 48
weeks yeah we're gonna start thebook of Acts today and it's
amazing wow yeah that is reallygood and uh the book of Acts is
such an amazing book about thehistory of the early church and
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um just how it all came aboutabout Paul meeting Luke and then
Luke uh following you know hewas a disciple of Paul and
traveled with him and and thenhe he was a doctor he he was a
brilliant man and and then hedid a lot of research and uh he
wrote the book of Luke and thenthe sequel was the book of Acts
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and so the book of Acts is likethe best written record we have
of the life of the early churchum after the ascension of Jesus
and uh it it got some amazingleadership um principles there.
Um you can break down the bookof Acts into some categories so
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you know you have chapter onethrough normally six or so is is
really focused on Peter.
And then you have uh chapter sixand seven is uh Stephen and the
martyr of the you know my kidsright now are going six yeah I
know I know that's how it is andthen I've got my brain trained
(04:25):
right and then uh Philip if youhave kids you understand just
went down what that down exactlyright we had to work that in
just for our younger audienceanyway so and then um uh Philip
now in chapter six we'll get tothat um hopefully today maybe
next week but in chapter sixhuge leadership principles
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because the church was growingso rapidly that the apostles
couldn't do all the work um andso they empowered others seven
others and the people pickedthem to can carry on a certain
part of the job and um and sothat's a significant shift in
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the story in the early churchand as a result of empowering
others to do leadership thechurch continued to grow.
So we'll get to that and theleadership principles about
that.
And that's really in chapter sixin in chapter seven um you have
uh Philip um in chapter you knowsix seven eight that there and
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then you have uh apostle Paul isuh introduced in chapter really
at the end of chapter eightreally chapter nine uh you have
uh another story about uh Peterand then almost the rest of the
book is uh focused on themissionary journeys of Paul and
so those are that's the basicoutline of that and we're gonna
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focus on really the first partof that book today and the
second part of that or the lastpart of the book next week um
but we can just get right intoit after we have a couple of dad
jokes you know of course I waslike wow he's gonna go straight
into it we're gonna go straightinto it no crazy no that's just
so random there's no way I'mgonna do that.
(06:12):
Well hey if you're just joiningus just so you know and if
you've been hanging out with usthe first hundred episodes you
know but if it's your firstepisode uh what we do is we talk
a little bit about the biblicaltalk a little bit about the
leadership principles that youcan take away from that and then
we throw dad jokes in because welike dad jokes we can and we can
and it's our show right so uhyeah so welcome yeah so you know
(06:36):
it's it's winter time and up inthe northern part of the country
there's a lot of snow I have asister who lives in Colorado and
and uh you know they had snow inSan Antonio my goodness that is
crazy but anyway so here we gowhere do snowmen keep their
money where do snowmen keeptheir money I don't know in snow
(07:00):
banks okay I'll get that oneyeah that's good there we go uh
okay here here's another onehere we go um what do you sing
at a snowman's birthday party umdon't know freeze a jolly good
(07:24):
fellow yeah that's that'sanother one okay okay here's one
last one then we'll get to thebook of Acts unless you have
some oh I mean I I didn't okayso so this time of year most
people you know some peopledon't put up their Christmas
tree till like right beforeChristmas a lot of people
(07:47):
already have their trees up youknow it's middle of December um
so what's a Christmas tree'sfavorite candy ooh favorite
candy yeah what's a Christmastree's favorite candy um good
question ornaments all rightokay let's go on why'd the tree
(08:12):
go to the barber this is apretty simple I think I've heard
this one why did the tree go tothe barber I don't know it
needed a trim it needed a trimone more what do you think what
do you get when you cross asnowman and a dog don't know
frostbite I need some buttonsover here okay good all right no
(08:39):
problem so now you know why weneed you to send us some dad
jokes you just wait until youjust wait until uh Christmas I
mean New Year's Eve show yeah umokay so yeah we we uh I told
this joke to my mother-in-law umlast night she was over at our
(09:00):
house wrapping presents and umso what do Santa's elves listen
to while they're working um uhrap music I knew that one I
think I've shared that last yeartoo yeah okay yeah I like that
one okay so let's get into Actschapter one so let's just talk a
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little bit about the the howthat's the whole story of that
uh and so we see at the end ofthe gospel of you know Matthew
Mark Luke and John uh that Jesuswas uh crucified he was
resurrected he appeared topeople he was on the earth for
40 days and then on the 40th dayum he gathered his disciples
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together he gave them some lastinstructions say hey wait in
Jerusalem until you know thepower of the Spirit comes upon
you they didn't really know whatthat meant they were still
thinking that he was going toestablish an earthly kingdom
overthrow the Roman governmentthose kind of things they really
didn't comprehend um what thethe mission was or the vision of
(10:09):
Jesus they really didn't at thatpoint but they were obedient to
that and so they uh went to aroom there in Jerusalem and they
uh prayed and searched thescriptures for ten days now
here's a here's a let's juststop right there and and talk
about the leadership principlein that because we see from the
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the the biblical story inMatthew Mark Luke and John that
Jesus with was with these twelvemen now there's eleven because
Judas uh hanged himself and soin chapter one we see them
replacing Judas um with anotherperson and um and so you have
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these twelve people and um Jesushad been training them uh
teaching them empowering themand give him a specific mission
he he had done that for threeyears and I know we've talked
about it on the show before butJesus had a secession plan.
He knew he wasn't going to bethere forever he wanted his
(11:16):
ministry mission to continueafter he was gone and and so I
know that you've dealed withthis Tim a lot in your
leadership seminars when youspeak around the country so
could you share just a littlebit about the importance of a
succession plan.
I know that's big in the church.
I know some churches don'treally think about that because
(11:38):
they think the pastor's going tobe there forever but it's so
important in businesses andother things you know you've got
to have some a plan for what'sgoing to happen after.
What has going to happen if okayso just jump in there and share
it.
SPEAKER_00 (11:56):
Yeah I think that uh you know I I get this and we we
talk about this and in all ourassociations and and we've
talked about it the church andall this stuff it's is to have
that succession plan in placebecause you have to have that
continuation of leadership rightand and that mission protection.
So this is our mission so howare we going to carry that
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through you know and you've seenthis many times with big
companies where um you knowsomebody starts a company and
then next thing you know it'lltake Steve Jobs right he started
the company had a mission he hada vision he he did this and then
ended up getting voted out andthe mission sort of wavered so I
mean somebody had to carry thatthrough it went down different
paths.
(12:39):
But if you if you start yoursuccession planning early enough
then you get people that thatknow where the ship's headed
that are on the same page ofwhere the ship's headed and you
know if something happens wherewhere you know you need to take
a break or you go on vacationfor a month to travel the Amazon
or walk across the mountains youknow on mountaintops for a
(13:00):
couple months you know youyou're not going to be side
railed and stuff.
And then and I think that's oneof the things that most people
do especially in associations wedo that is is we don't know
where where the ship's goingafter a lot of our associations
they're one year.
You know you sign up you're onthe the the board or the
committee as the chair for oneyear.
(13:21):
I'm just rolling well I've stillgot you know another few months
of uh being the education chairfor NHB right and but at that
same time we've we're I've gotthe two other people that are
behind me part of my meetings.
They're part of where we'regoing because it's it's a
continued process.
It was a continued process thethe leaders before me and the
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leaders after you and thatthat's helps you c you know not
lose the momentum not have tostart over every time that you
have a change of leadership andI think that's so important to
keep that so you can keep thatthat that that pipeline filled
and and to know that everybody'sworking towards that bigger
goal.
SPEAKER_03 (14:02):
So yeah and so um how many times in your speaking
have you run across companiesthat don't have a succession oh
I'd probably say it's it's wellinto uh 70 plus percent of the
time yeah I mean most people donot have a succession plan in
place.
SPEAKER_00 (14:21):
I talk to them every time about it.
SPEAKER_03 (14:23):
And do you have a reason is there a consistent
reason why do they think thatjust do they is it like well I'm
gonna be here forever or youknow I don't know if I trust
people enough to carry on at thesame quality of work or the same
mission or is there a consistentreason why that doesn't happen?
SPEAKER_00 (14:41):
Well I think it's multiple I think sometimes
people are afraid to give uptheir their inner thoughts
because when you when you createa succession plan you sort of
got to lay all the eggs on thetable and say here's where we're
going right and a lot of peopledon't have that they they feel
like they're losing their powerand this goes to delegation this
goes to leadership and all thatacross the board but I mean and
and sometimes people just don'thave time because once you lay
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out a succession plan well thenit's your job to mentor your job
to actively bring these peopleinto all your meetings and make
sure they're part of everything.
And some people don't like thatyou know they just want to get
it done get done get on down theroad and and be there and and uh
so I think there's a there's ayou know multitude of things
where they don't want to but I Iwill tell you that most people
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do not have a succession plan.
Most of the associations that Iwork with most of the uh the
companies I work with that we wethat's one of the biggest things
we talk about leadership is Ineed to come back and and help
you guys put this successionplan together because uh this is
something you have to have inplace going forward to be
successful.
I mean you can be successful butto carry on that mission you
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have to have it in place.
SPEAKER_03 (15:52):
And so there's one thing about mission there's one
thing a a different thing aboutstrategy.
Yeah right and so maybe therethe people that don't do this
are concerned maybe I want thesame strategy.
I want the same you know focusand you know you're gonna have a
different person come in um whocould be very very intelligent
(16:14):
they've been in the company along time but they look at it a
little different so theirstrategy might be the mission
might be the same.
SPEAKER_00 (16:21):
Right.
SPEAKER_03 (16:22):
But the strategy might be a little different and
people just might be hesitant tosay no I want everything the
exact same.
Right.
Okay.
Um and that's unfortunatebecause you've got some great
companies that if you don't havea great succession plan, uh
they're not going to last verylong after the main person steps
(16:42):
aside.
SPEAKER_00 (16:43):
Yeah.
And I think that as long asyou're you're setting it up
right, succession plans aredesigned to get the fundamentals
in there, right?
To keep the fundamental successthat you've had in place, you
know, everybody's gonna bringtheir own personality to it.
You can add things you canchange things a little bit right
but as long as you have thatcore going forward the company's
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going to be heading in the rightdirection.
Then you bring in some of yourstuff that you uh you do and you
test the waters with new thingsbecause you don't want to put
everybody in a box you know uhI'm I'm on the ladder on some
stuff and I'm already working ontrying to revamp a whole lot of
stuff that I have coming up insome of my uh positions.
Uh but I mean that's what I amI'm a change agent.
(17:26):
I like change.
I like I see things that areslightly broke and I'm gonna
work on fixing them.
But I'm not gonna just implodethe whole thing and rebuild it.
I'm gonna change what is therethat's broken but we're still
gonna have our forward printforward moving principles that
we're gonna stay in they'regonna stay intact.
SPEAKER_03 (17:45):
Yeah.
What a great a great uh uhlesson right there.
So so that's really in chapterone in in the book of Acts so we
have a succession plan they theyfollow what Jesus said they stay
in Jerusalem they pray readscripture and and then in Acts
chapter two we see a a verypowerful uh event happen on the
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day of Pentecost which was ahuge Jewish uh holiday anyway
and we read that the Holy Spirituh came on them with power um
and and so tongues of firetongues of fire and um and so
that's a whole lesson that wedon't have time to get into
(18:26):
right now but here's the thingafter that uh event um the they
were empowered to really sharethe message um publicly uh
before they were hiding in aroom um they were concerned
about their own lives uh butthey were empowered and there
(18:50):
was 120 of them we read um andso the two real principles I
want to uh get to uh in our timeremaining uh with with chapter
two and and that is how many uhtimes are let's just say how
important it is to get yourpeople together to to to pump
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them up to equip them to empowerthem to just uh you know rah rah
rah thank you so much for whatyou're doing let's go out and
make next year better um I knowsome companies do that really
really well and other companiesdon't do that um and and so in
your experience with dealingwith you know contractors home
(19:34):
builders around the country umyou know you've you deal with
some really big companies andsome small companies um how
consistent is it about having alike an annual meeting of your
employees or your staff oranything like that I remember we
used to have an annual retreatfor our staff yeah and we would
say okay this is kind of wherewe're going the next year and I
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would have my Sermons plannedout for a year in advance.
I didn't write them, but I hadall the themes and everything in
a year in advance.
I'd give it to my staff and say,hey, this is where we're going.
Let's talk about how all this isgonna, you know, how we're gonna
do different things at likeChristmas time, Easter time,
what's gonna happen in thesummer.
So everybody's on the same page.
(20:19):
So in your corporation, in yourbuilding uh experience, how does
that work in the building umbusiness?
SPEAKER_00 (20:27):
You know, everybody has a desire to have that
organization in place to be ableto go through those oh quarterly
meetings, yearly meetings, andall that.
But a lot of times it justreally depends on what time they
have.
You know, I see a lot of thingsthat get picked over because
we're busy, we don't have timeto do that.
(20:48):
You know, if it ain't broke,don't fix it.
We're moving.
I don't need to work onmarketing dollars, I don't need
to work on my website on and Ineed to work on meetings, and we
don't have to have raw-rah.
We don't have time for thoseraw-rah meetings.
We just need to go.
We need to uh do do it.
But then ultimately, you know,the the business looks like a
roller coaster sometimes forsome companies as well.
(21:09):
Now, I'm not saying some peoplego from from zero to you know
the moon, right?
You know, they're they're stillgoing up to this day, but at the
same time, a lot of people theyhit like the we're we're in a
slow time right now with comingoff the government shutdown a
while back and interest ratesnot knowing where they're at
with the Fed and and uh soeverybody's sort of coasting
(21:29):
through the holidays.
So now everybody's banking onfirst year.
Oh, we're gonna go, but I meanwhat if it doesn't?
You know, then you've got tostart, you know, pre-planning a
little bit.
And I think that's why it'simportant to have these
meetings, figure out whereyou're at, figure out what you
need to do to move forward,figure out who's in charge of
doing what, not just uh, youknow, we always say it, we said
on the show many times, beproactive, not reactive.
(21:52):
And I think that's one of thebiggest things that you want to
do in business.
SPEAKER_03 (21:55):
So yeah, and so if you have not had a calendar
planning for you know 2026,gosh, it's already 26, right?
It is uh if you don't have thatand you're the head of the
company or maybe you're vicechair or something like that,
um, I I would encourage you tosomehow um someday in 2026 have
(22:22):
a a one-day retreat, one daysomething, half a day something,
uh off site if possible, just toget your people together,
encourage them.
Um you know, encouragement goesa long way.
And uh they might not have anynew information, but just to
help people realize howimportant they are, how valuable
(22:45):
they are uh to the organization,and uh say, hey, no, this is
important.
We're gonna get together, we'regonna have a staff retreat, um,
we're gonna have a corporatemeeting or whatever, and we're
just gonna reemphasize um whatwe're doing.
Uh and so everybody's on thesame page.
And I just want to say thank youfor doing a great job last year.
(23:06):
And I'm not talking about aChristmas party, you know,
that's just that's kind of afun.
No, this is like a uh brah rob,thank you so much.
Uh keep doing a great job, anduh let's make next year even
better than this year.
And and uh you might not havehad that planned yet for 2026,
but I encourage you at somepoint to put that on the
(23:27):
calendar.
Uh there will be benefits fromit.
As long as you keep doing ityear after year, people look
forward to that, uh, that'll bereally, really good.
SPEAKER_00 (23:36):
Yeah.
Yeah, I I agree.
And and you know, and there'sways to go about it to make it
fun, you know, don't make itmonotonous where people are just
dread to go.
I've I've been through some ofthose where people are just
rolling their eyes, right?
SPEAKER_03 (23:49):
So, oh my gosh, when is this gonna be over?
SPEAKER_00 (23:52):
So, I mean, really, if if you go through and and you
bring the information and andand I I going through this
within one of my associations,and and every year we have a
brainstorming and where we'regonna go and and a leadership
retreat and all this stuff, butthen we don't do anything with
the information we did lastyear, and the year before we
(24:13):
keep having one, but then wedon't do the information.
So I'm working on trying tocompile the last four years that
we've done this and actuallymake something where we can have
an action plan to move forwardon this.
And uh, so I've taken it uponmyself to uh volunteer that uh
to put that in place because I Iuh you know I do this with
(24:36):
companies, but I'm like, allright, we're doing it in this
association, and I do this forcompanies, but I always have an
action plan.
It's not just brainstorming, butwhat are we gonna do with this
information?
SPEAKER_03 (24:45):
Yeah, so if you have a brainstorming session, uh an
annual meeting or whatever, andyou get a lot of great ideas,
and you literally do nothingwith it.
You talk about losing trust inyour people.
Yeah.
Um they'll think that was awaste of my time.
I'm just uh I, you know, I mightgo next year, but my mind's not
gonna be in the meeting.
(25:06):
Um, and so that's uh such animportant thing to have those
goal setting meetings or havethose kind of things and then
follow up uh afterwards and holdpeople accountable to get stuff
done.
SPEAKER_00 (25:19):
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And and you know, we we did thesame thing from surveys, you
know, these surveys I used topartner up with a survey company
and send out these employeesatisfaction surveys and
customer satisfaction surveys,and they wouldn't do anything
with information.
I'm like, it's worse to do thesurvey than it is not to do
anything and pretend it neverhappened.
(25:39):
Yes.
Because now people are expectingit.
Yeah, they're expecting noaction, then it's it's worse
than what it yeah, if it justwould have gone, oh, okay.
Okay.
SPEAKER_03 (25:49):
Well, let's get to this last principle in uh Acts
chapter, this is really in Actschapter one, but it's at the
beginning of the book, and so wesee something very, very
significant um in um in Actschapter one.
And um, what we read there isthat when the uh disciples,
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after they left, after Jesusascended, uh they went uh back
to Jerusalem, um, they were inthe upper room, all the
disciples were there.
And this is what we read inchapter one, verse 14, and this
is very, very significant.
Um, all these were with oneaccord were devoting themselves
to prayer together with thewomen and Mary, the mother of
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Jesus, and then the last threewords, and his brothers.
His brothers, huh?
His brothers.
So when we read the Christmasstory, it does say that G that
Mary had the her firstborn son.
There's several places in theBible that talk about and give
the names of Jesus' brothers.
Well, the reason that's sosignificant is because back in
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John chapter seven, verse five,we read these words.
And and then um uh they one ofthe brothers says, uh, uh if you
do these things, show yourselfto the world.
And then it says this in versefive.
(27:15):
For not even his brothersbelieved in him.
So we don't know exactly whenthat happened, uh, that his
brothers, I mean, they grew upwith him, but they didn't
believe he was the Messiah.
Um, and then and it's very clearhere in John chapter 5.
So we don't know how many yearsof Jesus' ministry that was.
We can't, it's hard to tell.
(27:36):
But then after the resurrection,they were in the room with the
other disciples because theybelieved in what he uh he was
doing.
They believed in the mission.
So so the leadership principleis, you know, some of your
people might it might take thema little longer to get on board
with the vision and the mission.
Now, some people you just gottalet go because they just don't
(27:57):
want to follow it.
But there's some people thatthat are good, good people.
SPEAKER_00 (28:03):
Right.
SPEAKER_03 (28:04):
Uh they're just a little slower to to say, oh
yeah, I get it now.
I understand why this is soimportant.
And um, and that's exactly whatwe see here in um with Jesus
Brothers.
And so the leadership principleis you've got to be very
discerning, wise to know whichis what.
I mean, which person is itthat's just not catching on and
(28:26):
you just need to let them go.
And what person is just gonnaslow, and once they're once they
catch on, they're gonna be huge,huge supporter of yours.
And it just takes a wise leaderto know the difference because
you don't want to let go of thewrong people.
Um, you know, I've made thatmistake.
Uh, you know, sometimes I'veI've had to let people go for
reasons, and it's like, mm,shouldn't have done that.
(28:48):
Um, but um that just rightthere, and and uh so the Jesus'
brothers were huge followers.
Um once they saw the mission, umuh they were they were just
massive supporters.
So anyway, any any comment on onthat?
It's just uh you gotta have bediscerning, you know?
SPEAKER_00 (29:10):
No comment.
SPEAKER_03 (29:10):
No comment.
Okay.
Let's just leave it right there.
Let's just leave it right thereand get some bad jokes because
we're almost out of time.
SPEAKER_00 (29:17):
We are we're almost out of time.
SPEAKER_03 (29:19):
So let's just get some bad jokes in here.
Um okay.
Why did the tree need to take anap?
SPEAKER_02 (29:30):
Uh probably haven't heard this one.
I have not, I don't think.
For rest.
For rest.
SPEAKER_00 (29:45):
You know, this one I I had pulled up as a joke, but
it actually made me uh um uhthink about it.
It was like logical and a jokeat the same time.
SPEAKER_03 (29:57):
Oh, really?
SPEAKER_00 (29:58):
Why is December such a cool or cold month?
SPEAKER_03 (30:04):
Uh if you're in Australia, it's not, so I don't
know.
It's true.
It's true.
Okay, why?
SPEAKER_00 (30:10):
Because it has burr in the name.
Oh gosh.
Yeah, that's definitely but Ithought about it.
I'm like, January, December,November, October.
July?
July is not a cold month, right?
So anyway.
SPEAKER_03 (30:31):
Well, let's just say is there any um any other dad
jokes that we can um that we canjust kind of throw out today?
Um, here we go.
Uh getting close to Christmas.
So here's here's a Christmasone.
Okay.
One of my favorite uh Christmascookies is gingerbread.
(30:53):
Gingerbread cookies.
Like gingerbread man, you know,those kind of things,
gingerbread lake, whatever.
I just like gingerbread cookies.
So, what does a gingerbread manuse when he breaks his leg?
SPEAKER_02 (31:07):
I think I know it.
Say it.
Iceling?
Oh, that's close.
How about a candy cane?
Oh I don't know.
SPEAKER_00 (31:16):
I think I like mine better.
Icling.
Icling.
Iceling.
Because you patch it with icing,so it's iceling.
SPEAKER_03 (31:23):
I I get it.
I get it.
Do I need to explain it again?
I don't like it, but I get it.
SPEAKER_00 (31:29):
Oh, I got one more from you.
Okay, why are Christmas treesbad at knitting?
SPEAKER_03 (31:37):
Because they lost all their needles.
SPEAKER_00 (31:39):
They always drop their needles.
SPEAKER_02 (31:41):
There we go.
SPEAKER_00 (31:44):
All right.
One more from you, and thenwe'll let these fine people get
out of here.
SPEAKER_03 (31:49):
Okay, so uh went to the store, you know, it's uh
some people like cranberries.
Um I like uh I like cranberries,you know, Thanksgiving,
Christmas, whatever.
But I dropped a really heavy boxof berries on my foot yesterday.
Right.
Yeah.
And it's so bad I can barelywalk.
(32:18):
Oh, yeah, that's definitely asleeper.
SPEAKER_00 (32:21):
Please send in some dad jokes.
All righty.
Well, save them up.
We got lots more dad jokescoming up.
SPEAKER_03 (32:27):
So we do.
SPEAKER_00 (32:29):
Yes.
Okay.
All right.
Well, thank you guys for uhhanging out with us.
We finally made it through John.
I'm so I feel so liberated thatwe made it through.
SPEAKER_02 (32:36):
Yeah, episode 101.
Thank you for starting this newchapter with us.
SPEAKER_00 (32:41):
And uh we roll into uh you know we almost timed it
perfect going into the new year,right?
So it would have been good.
But other than that, check usout biblical leadership
show.com.
Send us your dad jokes as weprepare for our New Year's Eve
show.
New Year's Eve Eve show.
And uh other than that, Dr.
Pete, take us out.
(33:02):
Happy anniversary.
Yeah, thank you so much.
Hey, thank you so much.
Make it a great day.
Make it a great day.
unknown (33:12):
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