Getting Unstuck: Aligning Your Vision, Strategy, and Team with Tony Morgan

In this episode, I wanted to share an interview from 7 years ago with the late Tony Morgan that is still relevant for church leaders today.

We dive into the challenges and strategies for maintaining a healthy church, emphasizing the importance of sustaining an outward focus and creating intentional ministry environments. Tony shares valuable insights from his book, The Unstuck Church: Equipping Churches to Experience Sustained Health, detailing the church lifecycle and how congregations can avoid plateauing or declining. Practical advice on leadership development, multisite strategies, and effective Sunday morning experiences offers actionable steps for church leaders.

We will miss Tony. He was a remarkable strategist, connector, and Kingdom influencer.
Celebrating Tony Morgan

The Post-Christian Podcast and Giveaways:

Our goal with The Post-Christian Podcast is to reframe, simplify, and focus on our mission to make disciples in a post Christian culture. We discuss reaching new people and raising up leaders while removing the barriers of churchianity.

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APPLE PODCASTS – An Interview with Tony Morgan

The Post-Christian Podcast – Dr. Efrem Smith (Pastor and Author)

In this episode, I interview Dr. Efrem Smith, a church planter, co-lead pastor of Midtown Church which describes itself as “a multiethnic, multiplying, reconciling, and disciple-making church.” Efrem consults on issues of multi-ethnicity, leadership, and community development. He is the former president and CEO of World Impact, an urban mission, church planting and leadership-development organization. 

He is the author of The Post-Black and Post-White Church, Killing Us Softly: Reborn in the Upside-Down Image of God, along with other books and articles.

We spent time discussing his newest book co-written by Daniel Kreiss called Church for Everyone: Building a Multi-Inclusive Community for Emerging Generations

THE POST-CHRISTIAN PODCAST AND GIVEAWAYS:

Our goal with The Post-Christian Podcast is to reframe, simplify, and focus on our mission to make disciples in a post Christian culture. We discuss reaching new people and raising up leaders while removing the barriers of churchianity.

Be sure to sign up for my email newsletter at www.ericbryant.org for a chance to win future book giveaways and assessments!

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The Post-Christian Podcast – Des Wadsworth (Church Growth Post-Pandemic)

In this episode, I interview Des Wadsworth, pastor of Grace Community Church in Tempe, AZ.

A native of the United Kingdom, Des served as lead pastor at Longton Community Church in England.

We discuss the remarkable growth of Grace since the pandemic along with rebuilding and renewal in a post-Christian context.

THE POST-CHRISTIAN PODCAST AND GIVEAWAYS:

Our goal with The Post-Christian Podcast is to reframe, simplify, and focus on our mission to make disciples in a post Christian culture. We discuss reaching new people and raising up leaders while removing the barriers of churchianity.

Be sure to sign up for my email newsletter at www.ericbryant.org for a chance to win future book giveaways and assessments!

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APPLE PODCASTS – An Interview with Des Wadsworth

The Post-Christian Podcast – Chad Lunsford (Author of Made for More)

In this episode, I interview Chad Lunsford, author of Made for More: Reach Your Highest Purpose & Live Your Greatest Story.

Chad serves as a pastor at Traders Point Christian Church in Indianapolis as well as an adjunct professor at Southeastern University. He founded Made For More, a non-profit organization that helps individuals and organizations reach their God-given potential through resources, coaching, and experiences.

We discuss church planting and how to help others find their purpose.

THE POST-CHRISTIAN PODCAST AND GIVEAWAYS:

Our goal with The Post-Christian Podcast is to reframe, simplify, and focus on our mission to make disciples in a post Christian culture. We discuss reaching new people and raising up leaders while removing the barriers of churchianity.

Be sure to sign up for my email newsletter at www.ericbryant.org for a chance to win future book giveaways and assessments!

Subscribe, Rate, and Review The Post-Christian Podcast at Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or YouTube.com/@ericbryant777.

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APPLE PODCASTS – AN INTERVIEW WITH CHAD LUNSFORD

Women as Elders in a Church?

When we helped plant a church in Seattle in the mid 1990s, we had women serving as elders. Having grown up as Southern Baptist, I had not been a part of a church with elders much less women serving as spiritual overseers.

I have written about a biblical approach to women in leadership in the past, but I wanted to share 4 lectures on the subject from Tyler Staton of Bridgetown Church in Portland.

Watch and listen with an open heart and mind, and I think you will begin to see how the Scriptures actually lift up and empower women rather than denigrate or limit them.