ELECTION SERIES| EP 1: The Hidden Reasons Your Church is Divided (And How to Fix It)
The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast
Carey Nieuwhof
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🗓️ 30 October 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Why is your church so divided? In this episode, Carey Nieuwhof kicks off our seven-part series on Pastoring in a Partisan Age. Carey looks at three hidden reasons people are so upset about everything these days, including politics. He also shares practical steps you can take to bring about unity.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey leaders is Carrie Newhoff. I'm on the road this week and we decided to do something to serve you as podcast listeners. |
| 0:05.6 | A few months ago I did a series on pastoring in a partisan age and with the election right around the corner we are reissuing those episodes I really hope |
| 0:14.6 | you enjoy I hope it's helpful and I hope it's just in time as you lead your congregation |
| 0:19.5 | and the people you care about through a very, very critical time. |
| 0:24.0 | The Art of Leadership Network. |
| 0:26.0 | Because of the collapse of common identity rooted in faith, |
| 0:29.0 | any rejection of my ideas is a rejection of me. Any attack on my ideas is an attack on me. |
| 0:38.0 | Welcome to the Carrie Newhoff Leadership Podcast, today a teaching episode and the |
| 0:47.6 | kick off to a new seven-part podcast series we're doing called |
| 0:51.8 | Pastoring in a partisan age and as usual I hope this helps you |
| 0:55.2 | thrive in life and leadership. Well in this episode I want to help you figure out how to |
| 0:59.4 | handle this incredibly delicate situation that every church leader and a whole lot of other |
| 1:04.8 | leaders are experiencing. I want to help you uncover the hidden reasons your |
| 1:09.5 | church feels divided and perhaps is divided and then give you some guidance on how to fix that. |
| 1:15.6 | I know a lot of pastors that I've talked to feel like they want to disappear this fall |
| 1:20.6 | and maybe re-emerge after the election. |
| 1:23.4 | You know, you got burned in 2020 and in many cases in 2016. |
| 1:28.2 | Why did you get burned? |
| 1:29.5 | Because you didn't say enough, because you said too much much because you said something with not quite |
| 1:33.8 | the right emphasis because you were too vocal or not vocal enough or you were not |
| 1:38.6 | partisan enough or you were too partisan and a lot of pastors are dreading the next few months of leadership as the US heads into another presidential election. |
| 1:48.0 | So I wanted to do this series to help. |
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