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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Daniel Fusco: How to Transition Leadership and Still Grow

“Ministry is a process. Whatever we think we know gets challenged everyday.” - Daniel Fusco

Josh and Sean McDowell: How to Answer Skeptics in a Post-Truth World

“Evidence is not argumentative, it's neutral. It's how you use it whether it’s good positive or unproductive.” - Josh McDowell

Clay Scroggins: How to Be a Great Leader When You Are Not in Charge

“Emotional poise is an attribute of great leaders, especially when you don’t have authority.” - Clay Scroggins

John Eldredge: What Life Might Look Like When Jesus Makes All Things New

“Christianity is supposed to be the triumphant entry of an astonishing hope breaking into human history; an unbreakable, unquenchable hope. But I’ll be honest, far too often what gets presented is the hope of Christianity feels more like a bait and switch.” - John Eldredge

Warren Bird: If You Want Your Church to Grow, Don’t Neglect This

“Jesus spent 75 percent of his ministry focused on developing the 12 and helping them then develop the next generation.” - Warren Bird

Alan Hirsch: Revitalizing Church with the Ephesians 4 Blueprint

“APEST (Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Shepherd, and Teacher) are the modes of Christ’s presence in the church.”

Glenn Packiam: The Gift of the Christian Calendar

“The church calendar is an extension of discipleship. It’s about Jesus. It’s about marking time along the life of Christ.” - Glenn Packiam

Lisa Bevere: How to Lead without Rival

“It is so easy to point out what is wrong with the church. It is hard to figure out what is right.”

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."

David Ashcraft on the Surprising, ‘Deep Emotions’ He Felt Stepping Down...

David Ashcraft joins “The Stetzer ChurchLeaders Podcast” to talk about how leadership has changed, how pastors can leave their churches better than they found them, and the startling emotions he felt when he stepped down as senior pastor.

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