Welcome back to the Bootcamp! This EP has the guys sitting down with none other than Mr. Practical Shepherding himself, Brian Croft, for a discussion about his new book, Pastoral Friendships. We hear a lot about relationships and even friendships in our day, we also know that as a Replanter or Pastor finding, maintaining and nurturing friendships can be difficult.
We invite you to listen and lean in and discover why, as a Pastor/Replanter friendships are necessary for you and how you can actively become intentional in making sure they are part of your life.
Prioritize Friendship
Pursue Friendship
Persevere in Friendship
Do you have some thoughts or observations? We’d love to hear them. Drop us an email, voicemail or leave a comment about your friendship discoveries.
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Welcome Bootcampers! Today Jimbo and Bob get down to the serious business of talking about the lifecycle of a church. Seasons of growth, plateau and decline are present in almost every church at some point in its history. For some churches a season of decline could lead to its eventual demise. The task of every church is to be keenly aware of where it is presently and what steps toward its future it must take. Is it time to revitalize or replant? Today’s EP will help you know which is right for your church.
A church asks different questions in different phases of its lifecycle. Which question is your church asking?
The question a growing church asks: What must we do?
The question a plateaued church asks: How are we doing?
The question a declining church must ask: Why are we not growing?
A declining church often asks the wrong question. It asks “what can we do?” rather than, “why are we dying?”
The Revitalization Window
There is a time period in the life of a church when it has the opportunity to ask the right questions, discern the answers and then chart a course in a new direction. This is a “revitalization window.” There are perhaps one to three revitalization windows in the life of a church.
This EP found our guys reminiscing about Ian, the recent Hurricane that hit the Florida Gulf Coast. Please remember to pray for our friends in FL and for the churches doing ministry there and for the Relief efforts continuing to take place.
In this important EP, the guys begin discussing the differences between “being” and “doing.” These insights come from Craig Hamilton’s work, Wisdom in Leadership. Hamilton says we can make two primary mistakes when thinking about this relationship between who God wants us to be and what God wants us to do.
1. SEPARATE – To see the two areas as being so separate that they have little or nothing to do with each other
2. OVERLAP – To see who we are and what we do as completely overlapping or even as being the same thing
“At either extreme we risk damaging both our ministries and our hearts.”
The guys offer some insights per Hamilton’s work as they wrap up the discussion:
DOING AND BEING
“It’s not that who you are and what you do are completely unrelated and separate, because they are related. What you do flows out of who you are. What God does through you is based on, and caused by, what God has done and is doing in you.”
See Luke 10:19-20
“Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you. Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”
“Do not find your ultimate joy and worth in the success of what God has sent you to do, instead rejoice in what God has made you to be, a child of the kingdom.”
Ask your self: “Do you tend towards too much separation or too much overlap?
In the end Satan doesn’t care which side of the boat you jump out of so long as you jump out.”
“God has called you to be a disciple, with other disciples, to go and make disciples. What God does through you flows from what God does in you. And what God does in you flows from what God has already done for you.”
Do you have some insights? We’d love to hear them, drop us a line, a text or voicemail.
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Hello Bootcampers! We’re welcoming in the fall, well all of us except Jimbo. He’ll grab a hoodie, and we’ll get down to the serious business of talking leadership and how to avoid leading in your own wisdom and strength. Tune in, listen up and get ready for some important info on how you can follow God, lead and pastor well.
Hey Bootcampers welcome back! Just a reminder that we’d love to see you in Louisville at the Am I a Replanter? October 27-28, 2022. You can register online here
Let’s get to it, we’ll start by defining pragmatism.
Hamilton says that what he means by “pragmatic is assessing a plan or belief in terms of its practical success. Pragmatism is a way of assessing problems and situations based on their immediate practical consequences rather than on abstract or ideological concerns. In other words, what’s right works.”
Before you toss out pragmatism understand that in it, there’s both good and bad. The challenging part of buying totally into pragmatism is that it may work in the short run-but often it doesn’t pay off in the long run. Most of the time, if you buy into an overly pragmatic decision-making style you’ll begin to experience unintended consequences.
Sit back, lean in, and listen to some of the helpful wisdom in this EP.
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Well Bootcampers it’s our third birthday! In celebration we’ve decided to grow up a little and add some volunteers to our team! We’re looking to add some content/blog writers who can take our content and turn it into helpful articles for our audience. If that’s you contact us on Facebook, email or voice mail.
In this EP we’re gonna talk about why it is important to always be learning and continuing your education. Life long learning is not an option in our opinion, we should all be seeking to grow and develop throughout our life. Here are some the highlights.
Why should we commit to continuing education?
Because we are never done learning.
We should hope to be characterized by 2 Thessalonians 1:3
We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.
To prevent spiritual atrophy
“The stiff and wooden quality about our religious lives is a result of our lack of holy desire. Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people. – A.W. Tozer
We all naturally drift toward leaning on our own understanding
Proverbs 3:5 – Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding
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The bootcamp boys are back at it and this time talking about why it’s important to listen to people you may not agree with. Sit back, dial in and consider how you might stay faithful to scripture, challenged and learn a few things from those with whom you might have differing views.
Listen to and learn from people you don’t 100% agree with
1. You need to avoid living in an echo chamber – It will challenge your thinking
Learn how to eat the meat and spit out the bones
2. You can’t truly teach against something you don’t really understand
Daniel Dennett’s advice on this (from his 2013 work Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking): “You should attempt to re-express your target’s position so clearly, vividly, and fairly that your target says, ‘Thanks, I wish I’d thought of putting it that way.”
By restating someone’s arguments accurately you can honor them and show them respect without affirming or agreeing with them. Then they might actually listen to and want to fully understand your perspective
3. It will help you fall more in love with truth
4. It will give you a deeper understanding of what you believe and why
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Let’s get right to it, the boys break down some of the key insights from the 2022 Replant Summit held in Alpharetta at The North American Mission Board. Also, a challenge has been issued to take on the hosts from Revitalize and Replant to a 2 on 2 hoops contest!
Now, on to the Summit insights.
Mark Clifton reminded us why we have doubts and the answer is a person named Jesus.
Brian Croft reminded us that the call to Pastor is a call to die a little each day for the sake of the flock.
Jordan Raynor reminded us to go to the author of time about how to manage time And he also reminded us to close our open loops.
Min Lee reminded us that God overcomes obstacles by using the body of Christ
Mark Hallock reminded us you teach what you know but you reproduce who you are!
Frank Lewis reminded us that we are carriers of hope through what we preach and who we are
Bob Bumgarner reminded us that we need each other, we are not to Pastor alone
Nick Ian Carter let us in worship, check out his music
Did you attend the Summit? We’d love to hear from you. If you are considering Replanting we’d love for you to join us at Southern Seminary, October 28-29, 2022 for Am I a Replanter?
EP 154 - SERVANT LEADERSHIP PT. 3 w / BOB BUMGARNER
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Here’s another great EP with Jimbo and the Bobs talking servant leadership. Every leader and every church lives in tension between selfishness and selflessness. Servant leaders live free and bold lives asking for feedback in order that they may become more, not for their own glory, but for God’s glory.
Bob Bumgarner put together a great chart which describes the difference between self-serving and servant leadership. Check it out as you listen to this EP and dig down deep in examining your own leadership world.
There’s some great gold in all of the podcast but this quote stands out; “In church planting, you may die of starvation. In church revitalization you may die of a broken heart.”
We’d love to hear from you! Do you have questions, comments, stories to share? Drop us a note, email or even voicemail on the Bootcamp hotline.
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Jimbo is joined by the Bob’s (Bob Bickford and Bob Bumgarner) in this EP on Servant Leadership. Join the guys as they explore leadership from the perspective of a three – legged stool.
Leadership Foundations
Personal: who is God shaping me to be?
People: how am I leading those God has given me?
Purpose: what is God calling me to do?
Leadership Action
Setting direction
Generating Commitment
Facilitating Change
Jump in and listen to the rest of this episode as Bob Bumgarner drops some great leadership wisdom applicable in your ministry, job and role.
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