Episode 108: On Why Pastoral Candidates Should NOT Put Their Best Foot Forward (with Blake Boylston)

Pastors Talk - A podcast by 9Marks

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Prospective pastors, don’t put your best foot forward.

In this episode of Pastors’ Talk, Jonathan Leeman chats with Mark Dever and Blake Boylston about the interviewing and candidating process.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Jonathan Lehman.
0:07.3	I'm Mark Devere.
0:08.2	And welcome to this episode of Nine Marks Pastors Talk.
0:10.7	Nine Marks exist to equip church leaders to biblical vision and practical resources for building healthy churches learn more at nine marks.org.
0:18.2	Jonathan, you just mentioned me, but Pastor Blake Boylston is sitting over there.
0:23.8	He sure is.
0:24.3	What's he doing here?
0:25.4	Here I am.
0:25.9	Hey.
0:27.0	All the way from Arkansas?
0:29.0	Not yet, but...
0:30.3	On the cusp.
0:31.2	I don't know.
0:32.1	We may be putting this out in the spring of 2020, and he may have been the pastor there
0:37.4	for six months. I'm already in the spring of 2020, and he may have been the pastor there for six months.
0:38.1	I'm already in the future.
0:39.3	But at this moment, he has just been voted in by the congregation, praise the Lord,
0:43.7	and you just went through the interviewing process, which is what I want to talk about with you,
0:48.3	both of you, but it's fresh in your mind, Blake.
0:51.9	Yes, sir.
0:52.7	And you've been looking for a church for a few years.
0:54.7	That's right.
	...

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