The Stetzer ChurchLeaders Podcast

The Stetzer ChurchLeaders Podcast helps Christian leaders navigate and lead through the cultural issues of our day by giving voice to recognizable names in ministry, subject matter experts, and local pastors and leaders. Whatever area of ministry you serve in, our goal is to help you lead better every day.

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Eugene Cho: Sacrificing Agenda to Make a Positive Impact on Your Neighborhood

“Local churches will come and go…But the Kingdom of God will endure forever.”

Scot McKnight: Reconciling Science and Scripture

“We’ve got to quit trying to show that the Bible is scientific and let the Bible say what it says in its world.”

N.T. Wright: What the Church Has Missed in the Crucifixion of Jesus

N.T. Wright: “Trust the God of surprises."

Louie Giglio on Taking Risks: If the Church Doesn’t Take Risks, Goliath Will Never Fall

Louie Giglio on taking risks: “Our freedom and God’s glory are woven together. They’re inextricably linked together.”

Jarrid Wilson: De-Stigmatizing Mental Illness in the Church

“If the local church really wants to be the hope of the world, then the local church needs to step into areas in which the world finds itself hopeless: Mental health." - Jarrid Wilson

Max Lucado: How Pastors Can Be Anxious for Nothing

People can be anxious for nothing. “Helping people disentangle this problem with anxiety is one of the great privileges of the church.” - Max Lucado

Efrem Smith: Being God’s Reconcilers in a Volatile Mission Field

“We have to challenge, lovingly, folks in the church to remember that our citizenship in the Kingdom of God actually supersedes even our citizenship in the United States of America.” - Efrem Smith

Todd Adkins: Why We Struggle to Develop Leaders in the Church

“Our job as pastors is to develop people. When you get to heaven, your legacy is not going to be something you’ve done; it’s going to be the people that you’ve developed.”

Shane Claiborne: When Christians Are Compelled to Protest

“I don’t know many people who get argued into thinking differently. I know a whole lot of people who get moved by their heart and they get story-ed in.”

William Vanderbloemen: How to Find and Keep Great Church Staff

“Unwinding a hire is bad in the corporate world—it’s way worse in the church world."

Mark MacDonald: How to Make Your Church Known for Something

“Every pastor needs to know that oftentimes we’re doing far too much stuff.”

Dave Gibbons: Leading Your Church through Desert Moments

"When you think of [Jesus] in his perfect state and we’re all with him in heaven, he’s the only one that’s going to bear scars, and he’s still perfect."

Jodi Hickerson: The No-Strings-Attached Approach to Church Planting

"We like to throw these parties for people who are often overlooked or often under-celebrated, that couldn't pay us back."

Adam Hamilton: Lessons on Leadership from Moses, the Reluctant Prophet

“I think for Moses [the Promised Land] was always more than a just a piece of real estate. It was a place where God’s Kingdom was lived out on earth as it is in heaven."

Kyle Idleman: How Pastors Miss the Grace of God

“Paul’s discovery of God’s grace did not come through God’s blessing in the way that Paul would have wanted or Paul would have been looking for. It came unexpectedly. It came through disappointment. It came through discouragement."

Peyton Jones: What We Miss about the Apostles’ Approach to Reaching the Unreached

“I see the similarities between today and the first century. I believe that a post-Christian world is very similar to a pre-Christian world…And if the conditions are the same, then the solutions are the same.”

Jeff Myers: Exposing the Non-Biblical Worldviews that Influence the Church

“I want you to imagine looking at your congregation right now. Only one out of five of the people you see has a biblical worldview.”

Shawn Lovejoy: Building Healthy Cultures, Teams, and Systems in the Church

“I really believe that if one more program would save the day, the church would have already saved it.”

Mark DeYmaz: Repurposing the Church—Living Out the Gospel and Leading Change in Culture

“We are way past sharing four spiritual laws on the beach. People don’t need the words. They need the works.”
I Can Only Imagine 2

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Actor John Michael Finley played MercyMe frontman Bart Millard in the hit 2018 film “I Can Only Imagine,” titled after MercyMe’s song of the same name. Now, Finley is set to reprise his role in the sequel, "I Can Only Imagine 2," and he is thrilled about it.
Joby Martin

Joby Martin: What Happens When Pastors Finally Understand Grace

Joby Martin joins “The Stetzer ChurchLeaders Podcast” to discuss what happens when a church leader has truly been run over by the “grace train" and understands the profound love and grace of God.

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