Every Church Flourishing by the Great Commission Association
The Every Church Flourishing podcast is all about helping churches, leaders, and pastors find health, encouragement, practical advice, soul care, and resources that work together to build up your local fellowship and the broader Kingdom of God. Join hosts Pastor Chris Cole and Dr. Chase Thompson from the Great Commission Association, led by Dr. Mike Stewart, as they explore the frontiers of ministry and aim to make every church flourish! Broadcasting from the North-Central Coast of California and the beautiful redwoods, We will focus on church growth, pastoral health, church leadership, evangelism, discipleship, denominational news, West Coast church news, California Baptists, apologetics, prayer, and other facets of church health and flourishing. In addition to church health, every show features a semi-rare and interesting soda review, choosing soft drinks from all around the world.
Episodes
Every Church Flourishing Episodes 41 and 42 with Lisanne Huber and Jerry Watson. <...
Every Church Flourishing Episode 40 with Tammi Smorynski and Samuel Kommu
Title: How Can Churches Recognize Their Weaknesses and Do Something About Them? Tim Challies ' leadership advice. How does the church go forward from a human perspective?
The worst soda ever conceived. Absolutely disgusting. Made from a fruit banned from multiple airlines, and a fruit that shut down an ...
Every Church Flourishing Episodes 39-40 with Tammi Smorynski and Samuel Kommu and Pastor Christ...
Every Church Flourishing 38 With Bob Bickford.
Title: Culture Eats Strategy For Breakfast. Church Replanting, Church Revitalization, and Help For Struggling Churches with Bob Bickford. FIND YOUR DOTTIES. The Dangers of Soda Racism.
If you don't deal with your church's problems because you don't want people to leave, the truth is that people will leave BECAUSE you aren't dealing wi...
Episode 37: WHY leads to WHAT: Pastoring Change in Churches That Want Change But Resist It. HELP! My Church Isn't Growing…What Should We Do?! With Bob Bickford of the Nashville Baptist Association.
Notes:
We think if we deal with our problems, people will leave, but the truth is that if we DON'T deal with our problems, people will leave.
How attendan...
Cody Bryan and Christian Challenge Santa Cruz: https://challengeucsc.com/affiliations/
Brandon O'Sullivan at Gospel Community: https://www.gospelcommunitysc.org/leadership
How can young ministers and leaders in the church avoid controversy and offense so that they can be fruitful and flourish?
How can churches have deeper and more fruitful partnerships with parachurch ...
Today's episode features Pastor Brandon O'Sullivan from Gospel Community Church in Santa Cruz, California: https://www.gospelcommunitysc.org/leadership And Cody Bryan, from Christian Challenge at U.C. Santa Cruz.
Episode 35: How Can Parachurch and Church Ministries Work Together?? The Kingdom of God is Not Competitive, But Cooperative.
How Can Churches Make Room for Young Leaders and Not ...
How to get in touch with Jason Kovacs and Gospel Care Collective:
https://www.gospelcarecollective.com/counseling/jason-kovacs/
How Jesus in the Garden models for us the need to share our burdens, pains, and needs with other believers rather than bottle them up.
What are signs and symptoms that your anxiety or stress has gone beyond the point where you can handle it on your...
Every Church Flourishing with Jason Kovacs, 33-34.
Guest:
Jason Kovacs is not simply a biblical counselor who works with pastors, but even that is pretty special. He has also been heavily involved in church planting, pastoral ministry, adoption/orphan-care advocacy, nonprofit leadership, counseling-center deve...
Today, we continue talking with Pastor Ed Compean of Shoreline Calvary Chapel Church in Morro Bay about churches helping churches and interdenominational cooperation and unity.
Tango Mango Soda Review.
It's the most honorable thing you can do to have the humility to say, "I don't know it all, and I need help."
Resources:
David Jackson - Falling in Love with...
How can churches help other dying, declining, and plateauing churches, and WHY should they? The Health of a Church is Not Found in its Sanctuary Size but in the Great Commissional Mobilization of its people. Why Should Churches Foster (Help) Other Churches?
Today we interview Pastor Ed Compean, a former missionary to Nairobi, Kenya, and a current Calvary Chapel pastor in Morro Bay, California, ...
Every Church Flourishing Episodes 29-30 Jeff Woolstenhulme and Michael Denton
Practical Wisdom on Church Change for small and medium sized churches, and church replants. How can pastors build trust in new or hurting congregations? How Vulnerable Should Pastors Be When it Comes to Confessing Sins? Benign Neglect: Not everything needs to be changed.
Also, during today's soda re...
Today we talk about change, transformation, church death, church renewal, church replanting and revitalization with Pastor Michael Denton of First Baptist Nipomo and Pastor Jeff Woolstenhulme of Foothills Baptist in Los Altos.
A church in FBC Nipomo that had 6 members left, and a church in Foothills Baptist that had 8 members - both on the verge of death very recently- now both churches are on the ro...
ECF Episode 28: Vision vs. Management, How Can Leaders Balance Confidence and Humility? + The Loneliness Epidemic: Finding Connection Shortage in an Online Society. + the Humility of "I Don't Know."
Vision vs. Management: When Vision gets tired, Management takes over the wheel and drives the organization.
Only trillionaires in California have 8 acres.
Intro...
Today we talk to the Strategic Outsider, Chris Reinolds, a missions strategist from Northeast Florida. Chris is a great writer and thinker about the mission of the church, and he encourages us today to focus on those practices and programs that align with the church's primary mission, and to cut those things we don't which don't line up with our primary purpose. In addition, we also discuss:
The as...
Also: A Beginner's Course on Coffee Roasting!
We begin today's episode in the middle of an interview with Gateway Seminary Bay Area Director Dr. Cameron Schweitzer, and his is discussing the upcoming Bay Area Theology symposium which will address issues like Christian Nationalism, politics and Christian leadership, and other hot-button topics right now. How can pastors effectively lead in a politically polarized ...
Pastors and Church Leaders: MUST You Go to Seminary? NO! But, Why SHOULD You?
Why Should Pastors or Church leaders consider a seminary degree? All about Gateway Seminary, Bay Area Campus.
What makes in person seminary training better than online seminary or online classes? Incarnate ministry training vs. online ministry training.
The benefits and drawbacks ...
How does surrender work in a Christian's life? We try to surrender, but God is the one who provides the means for us to surrender.
Being with the Lord is most important, rather than me trying and trying harder.
The comfort of God carrying us to completion in our spiritual journey.
Prayerlessness=Powerlessnes. What can be done about the powerlessness in the modern...
Today, we have a deep discussion with Dr. Se J. Won on the topic of prayer, and Dr. Won goes beyond the normal prayer discussions and will lead us into a wonderful blend of spirituality and practicality as we discuss how to enrich your prayer life, and why the tyranny of the urgent is less worth your time than abiding in Christ is. Se J shared one of my favorite quotes I've heard recently when he said, "We often settle...
#22. On today's episode, we finish up a great interview with Dr. Cathie Smith, who is the Great Commission Association Women in Ministry Ambassador. If you are following the news, this is a timely conversation for us, as the nation's largest Protestant denomination, the SBC, grapples with the role of women in ministry. Today, we talk with Dr. Cathie about how pastors should seek to enlist qualified and gifted women to serve i...
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