Good Ideas For Churches

May 08 2023 25 ep. 19 mins 91

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Good Ideas For Churches is a podcast where we bring in pastors and leaders from normal churches and they share their best ideas so you can steal those ideas to make your thing work better.

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025 - A Creative Idea to Make the 'Giving Conversation' Really Positive, With Robert Gelinas

May 08 2023 14 mins

Talking about giving in church is always a loaded conversation, with several ways for people to walk away feeling guilted or offended. Colorado Cmmunity Church, in Aurora, CO has a plan they call 5+5 that leaves people excited about the topic. At the core, their approach is deeply spiritual, and gives people a ton of personal choice and responsibility. I'm very grateful to Robert G

024 - Social Media is the Chief Discipler of Our Age. Here's How to Push Back, with Chris Martin.

Apr 25 2023 15 mins

Social media is the chief discipler of our age, and it isn't even close. Chris Martin has spent the last 10 years managing 100s of social media accounts for large Christian publishers. This has given him a unique window into how these platforms have a negative impact on people. He's also written two books on the topic, as well as a regular newsletter on substack. His first book is

023 – Can Team Preaching Work In a Small Church? Yes! With Eric Hoke

Mar 28 2023 20 mins

Team Preaching typically is the territory of larger churches with a larg staff. But it can work in a small church too, and brings a lot of benefits beyond just sharing the load. I’m joined in this episode by Eric Hoke. Eric is a co-vocational pastor who works on wall street in addition to pastoring. This is Eric’s story of how he set up a preaching team for his fresh-out-

022 – Helping Someone Heal from Abuse, with Jennifer Greenberg

Mar 16 2023 24 mins

How do you help someone heal, and continue to trust God when they’ve experienced unthinkable trauma? I learned so much from this conversation with Jennifer Greenberg, and hearing explain her own process of healing. Her book, Not Forsaken: A Story of Life After Abuse: How Faith Brought One Woman from Victim to Survivor, is a great resource for someone who has been abused, or fo

021 - Simplifying Sundays. Bringing Back Humanity & Fun

Feb 28 2023 15 mins

This is the story of how a church in GA did some self-examination during Covid shutdown, and came back with a radically different minsitry. In the process, they made some important discoveries about who they wanted to be, and found a lot of benefits they didn't see coming. Special thanks to Madison Tompkins, the 1-Service Church evangelist, and Lead Pastor Justin McTeer of His Hand

020 - Could the Church Help with Our Policing Problem in the US?

Feb 03 2023 21 mins

Supporting police has become a controversial idea in the US. Some communities, for good reason, have lost faith in the institution because some officers have abused their trust. Many others are trying to do good in a system that’s broken, and face incredible pressures. All of it invites the question: What could we do to make it better? This episode provides a first step toward

019 - Does My Smartphone Change the Sermon? A Conversation On Neil Postman's 'Amusing Ourselves to Death'

Jan 23 2023 19 mins

Is watching a sermon on my phone the same as going to church? Does the device change the message in any way? Shouldn't we be utilizing these devices to reach & connect with people? Smartphones and the internet aren't going away, & every ministry needs to wrestle with these questions. Now a classic, Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Busi

018 - Spiritual Formation: Optional for the Christian Life? W/ William Mack

Jan 14 2023 27 mins

Spiritual Formation: How does it differ from discipleship & and how can we think intentionally about the habits that shape us? This concepts means something different to anyone you ask. But I guarantee it is something that is happening to all of us. In this episode I’m joined by Rev. William Mack III to explore the idea and consider how we might think about our partnership with t

017 – What would your missionary say to your church if they could?

Dec 09 2022 24 mins

How can churches better support their missionaries? What would your missionary want to say to you if they felt they could? How can we support kids who have grown up in a missions context, and now feel displaced back ‘home?’ In this episode I talk with Alan Steier. He and his wife Judy work fulltime with Barnabas International to provide spiritual and emotional care and supp

016 - Why We All Must Think Like a Church Planter: One Story from Inner City Atlanta

Nov 21 2022 23 mins

Not all of us will be church planters, but we all need to shift our mindset to thinking like church planters. In the post-Christian west, fewer and fewer people have a context for Christian terms and meaning. My guest, Nathan Dean planted and served a church in downtown Atlanta for 12 years. He and his wife were very successful in explaining the Christian life in ways that were not