CNLP 699 | Zach Zehnder on What's Wrong in Current Discipleship, Planting a Church In a Mainline Denomination, and How to Know When It's Time to Leave
The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast
Carey Nieuwhof
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🗓️ 31 December 2024
⏱️ 74 minutes
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What's wrong with the current approach to discipleship? Lutheran pastor and author Zach Zehnder talks about what's wrong with the current approach to discipleship and what it's like to plant a church in a mainline denomination.
Plus, Carey and Zach discuss the challenges of being an entrepreneurial pastor and how these innovative church leaders know when it's time to leave their clergy positions.
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| 0:00.0 | The Art of Leadership Network. |
| 0:02.9 | There is no differentiating factors between people that believe in Jesus and people that don't. |
| 0:08.3 | And that's super sad for me. |
| 0:10.5 | And so collectively, like we've just settled for, like I said, this broken down shadow at best representation. |
| 0:16.1 | That's super confusing. |
| 0:17.7 | Why would anyone want to follow Christ? |
| 0:20.5 | And what's the good news when our lives look |
| 0:22.8 | no different than anybody else? Welcome to the Kerry Newhoff Leadership Podcast. It's |
| 0:31.1 | Carrie here, and I hope our time together today helps you thrive in life and leadership. |
| 0:35.4 | Well, we are on the final moments of another year. And I am very |
| 0:42.2 | excited for everything that's ahead. Hey, thank you so much for joining us today. I want to welcome |
| 0:46.5 | all of you who are new. Maybe you're checking out this podcast for the first time over what I hope |
| 0:51.3 | is a really great break for you. And we got a lot coming to you. Today I sit down |
| 0:56.4 | with Zach Zender. We talk about what's wrong in current discipleship. Planting a church in a |
| 1:02.3 | mainline denomination doesn't happen as much as it does in nondonoms and how to know when it's |
| 1:08.1 | time to leave. Today's episode is brought to you by my newsletter, On the Rise. |
| 1:12.1 | If you want to be the first to get 2025's Church Trends, |
| 1:15.5 | be sure to join my email list because on January 2nd, |
| 1:18.7 | I will be releasing all five trends along with a leader guide. |
| 1:22.2 | And throughout January, there'll be more Church Trends content, |
| 1:25.6 | podcast episodes, and resources to come. |
| 1:28.3 | Place to get it all easily is on the rise newsletter.com or click the link in the description |
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