Episode 15: On How Quickly a Pastor Should Make Changes

Pastors Talk - A podcast by 9Marks

9Marks

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

It’s tempting for a new pastor to show up with a laundry list of problems that need to be fixed. But that approach almost never works, and many have left churches worse off due to their hastiness in implementing change. To help pastors with this, Jonathan sat down with Mark to chat about how quickly a pastor should try to make changes in a church.

SHOW NOTES:

– You’ve said before that young pastors have great acuity, but poor depth perception. Can you explain that? (1:00)

– What kinds of mistakes do young pastors take? (2:40)

– How did you moderate the pace of change at the beginning of your time at CHBC? (5:50)

– Is “change nothing in your first year” good advice? (9:45)

– What should a pastor give himself to in the first year? Why is preaching so crucial? (13:00)

– Should a pastor deliberately set out to build relationships with those who are disagreeable? How much does that help? (15:55)

– Why should some pastors not practice church discipline right away? (18:00)

– How much does handing out books help? (19:50)

– Three areas of things that might change. (23:00)

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, I am Jonathan Lehman.
0:07.7	And I'm Mark Deber.
0:09.0	And welcome to this episode of Pastor's Talk, brought to you by Nine Marks.
0:13.2	Hey, is this one we're doing on multitasking?
0:15.7	You are good at that.
0:17.6	I may be looking to do some evaluations, but I'm not going to pay attention.
0:20.7	Even in these interviews, you proved somewhat adept at that. I may be looking to do some evaluations, but I'm going to pay attention. Even in these interviews, you proved somewhat adept at it.
0:25.3	But Nine Marks, in case you didn't know, exists to equip church leaders with a biblical
0:30.1	vision and practical resources for building healthy churches.
0:32.8	Learn more at Nine Marks.org.
0:35.6	And in these pastors talk, we do our best to do some inside baseball for
0:40.3	pastors. And we're going to go really inside baseball today and talk about, Mark.
0:45.3	Finances. How quickly pastors should change stuff in their churches?
0:50.2	I got an email about this today. So I assume the guy in the email will care, and about four others will care.
0:56.1	Uh-huh.
0:57.9	You want to tell us about the email?
1:00.1	If it turns out.
1:01.0	Okay.
1:01.2	Keep going.
1:02.4	You have a great way to talk about young pastors and their eyes.
1:06.9	Yeah.
1:07.6	The phrase I've used before is that I...
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