5 Leadership Questions Podcast on Church Leadership with Todd Adkins and Dan Iten

In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Todd Adkins and Chandler Vannoy are joined by Timothy Lupfer, author, speaker, and leadership consultant. They discuss the two tools of leadership and recognizing others self interests. BEST QUOTES "My definition of leadership is: leadership is a role where you affect followers to achieve the organizational goals.""People can be great specialists, but that doesn't make them leaders.""There are two tools in leadership: authority - which is top down - and influence - which is more bottom up.""Influence is your ability to personally interact with people.""Character is only effective in a leader if it rests on an existing foundation of giving direction and demonstrating capabilities.""For the vast majority of us, leadership is hard work.""To be most effective, we need to recognize the self interests of others as well and try to work in a way that these things are not mutually exclusive.""You are leading people to achieve an organizational goal and that is to benefit everybody that is in it, not just your own self interests.""If you are aspiring to be a leader, are you ready to take on that emotional burden?" RECOMMENDED RESOURCES Lifeway Leadership Podcast Network Lifeway.com/CoronaVirus Leadership Tough Love by Timothy Lupfer

In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Todd Adkins and Chandler Vannoy are joined by Jay Kranda, online campus pastor of Saddleback Church. They discuss the following questions: What does your Sunday service currently look like? What are you planning on doing moving forward?What does your online service look like?When we return to in-person gatherings, how will you handle online services? What do you think the church will look like for the next few years? How will online church play into that?How do you effectively disciple people online? What's the difference in doing it when they are geographically far and geographically near?What are the goals and metrics churches should have to say this was an effective Sunday?What are some vanity things people got hyped about the first three weeks and they weren't a reflection of reality?What are some of the biggest challenges you are facing and how are you overcoming them? BEST QUOTES "We have gone all digital with our services. The only things that are happening in person are food bank type initiatives." "Our orthodoxy is great for preserving the faith, but also with technology you have to be more nimble." "To do this well you have to create native content for these platforms." "I'm excited for the church to embrace digital, but I am still fearful that the investment needs to happen to do things right." "Online has a huge on-ramp through streaming, online groups, online discipleship opportunities." "I do think that some of the most innovation is going to come out of people coming out of seminary that have giftings in teaching and realize that they can build an audience and then they can build a church." "Build your audience and then use that to figure out where you are going to plant your church or churches." "Don't get worried about how many people you can reach, think about who you should be reaching." "We still believe that we want people to be in physical community." "All of what we do online is moving watchers into community or online to offline." "There is always an underlying strategy where we are trying to move you to something longterm." "A lot of people underestimate the value of having a streaming experience on your website that is very clear. YouTube and Facebook are great, but they are a very distractive platform for long-term engagement." "How many people did not just view it, but watched it for at least ten minutes?" "Most churches really need to focus in on how to do digital right locally." RECOMMENDED RESOURCES Lifeway Leadership Podcast Network Lifeway.com/CoronaVirus Church Online Platform

In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Todd Adkins and Chandler Vannoy are joined by Josh Patterson, lead pastor of The Village Church. They discuss the following questions: What current local regulations are in Dallas? What does your Sunday service look like right now and how does that change week to week?What are you doing in different ministry areas?What advice would you share to listeners on how to think strategically during this time?What are the biggest challenges you are facing and what are you doing to overcome these challenges?Where are you leading your team and their focus?How have you adapted roles during this time? BEST QUOTES "Our question as it relates to meeting has not been politically motivated, but it has been pastorally motivated.""We are in a particular zone where the numbers are going in the wrong direction, and as a church of our size we didn't want to contribute in anyway to growing numbers.""This season is pressing us to find new forms of what it means to gather, and, candidly, those forms in many ways look like how the church has gathered since the beginning.""In a season where there is so much leader fatigue and energy being used to direct in new ways of ministry, just taking weekend services off the table for a season allows our energy to be directed toward getting other ministries up and off the ground.""How do we do this in a digital/virtual space that is meaningful and connective?""Our group ministry has been woven into the fabric of our culture for years, and that has helped keep things tight in a time when we are spread out.""COVID has allowed us to ask some questions that we didn't feel the same burden to answer before that we do now.""Leaders have to slow down and begin to do some of the difficult strategic work.""I don't want to brush over the need to lament the loss that is present in this context.""There is a work that is happening right now in me, in us as a staff, in us as a church, in us as a community, and if I simply find myself wishing for a bygone day or a future day, then I miss where the Lord is working and He is working right now in this day.""The gospel is moving forward, and I want to be a part of that." RECOMMENDED RESOURCES Lifeway Leadership Podcast Network Lifeway.com/CoronaVirus Creature of the Word by Matt Chandler, Josh Patterson, and Eric Geiger

In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Todd Adkins and Chandler Vannoy are joined by Jamie Ivey, podcaster and author of You Be You. They discuss learning from sources outside of your normal circle and working with contractors as opposed to full-time staff and bringing them into your business culture. BEST QUOTES "I'm learning from someone who is ahead of me in ministry, and I am learning from people online that are teaching me and opening up my mind to things I never thought about much because it didn't affect my life much.""As leaders, when we expand out to learn about things, I think it makes us better leaders, better listeners, and better understanders in everything we are doing as well.""How do we grow and how do we become more efficient in what we are doing?""How do we, as much as we possibly can, bring them into our team culture?""When you feel like you are connected to something, you want to do your best.""Whatever you can do, do it with excellence.""When I get to the end of my life, I might look back and say that parenting was one of the greatest gifts that God allowed me to be a part of, but also one of the hardest gifts that He allowed me to be a part of.""Look for jobs, even when you are 16, that you would feel joy and be passionate about.""Think about every single job as a unique opportunity to do something that you love.""In this day and age, nothing is a secret.""Every single thing that you put online is a reflection of your character, and it will never go away." RECOMMENDED RESOURCES Lifeway Leadership Podcast Network Lifeway.com/CoronaVirus 5LQ Episode 229: Jamie Ivey You Be You by Jamie Ivey The Happy Hour with Jamie Ivey Podcast Be The Bridge Women of Welcome Born Again This Way by Rachel Gilson Gay Girl, Good God by Jackie Perry Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man The Happy Hour #300: The Ivey Kids Text FRIEND to 33-777

In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Chandler Vannoy and Ben Mandrell are joined by John Eldredge, author of Wild at Heart and Get Your Life Back. They discuss soul care and how technology causes distractions. BEST QUOTES "My attention has been fragmented by the way I work, the way I move, the way I consume media. I want my attention back.""Transformation, human restoration, takes place when you are able to give God your attention.""If we put some boundaries around technology we get to be people again.""The modern pastor has the most ruthless job on the planet.""The human soul is nourished by creation.""Every leadership meeting has some component of waiting for God to lead.""You have to unplug from your world to move into other things.""We are in love with distraction because distraction keeps you from having to look at anything inside.""If you don't take care of your soul, you will dry out. And then you will look for relief." RECOMMENDED RESOURCES Lifeway Leadership Podcast Network Lifeway.com/CoronaVirus Wild at Heart by John Eldredge Get Your Life Back by John Eldredge Captivating by John and Stasi Eldredge The Shallows by Nicholas Carr Experiencing God by Henry & Richard Blackaby, Claude King Jesus Calling by Sarah Young One Minute Pause App This episode's sponsor: For more than 25 years, Portable Church® has helped thousands of churches launch strong and thrive in a mobile setting. They design custom solutions that fit each budget, vision, and venue. Everything you need to launch a mobile church — an inviting worship space, kids ministry areas, welcome spaces, storage cases, etc — all in a system refined to make it fast, easy & fun for the weekly volunteer teams.