Season 2, Episode 7: Courageous Leadership

 

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In the Essentials Podcast, we invite you to be a part of a conversation about what is essential in church ministry.

To effectively make disciples, our communities must be led by healthy and courageous leaders. This is an essential part of the community to navigate the challenges of change.

In our time together, we talk about what courageous leadership is and how we can grow in courage together as leaders in our churches. In this conversation, we are joined by Adam Eshbaugh, the Lead Pastor of Hope Alliance Church in Bethlehem, PA.

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Our team invites you to be a part of this conversation around what is essential. In order to help facilitate that beyond listening to the podcast, we are including a series of discussion questions with each episode that can be used to have these conversations with your church leaders and other pastors.

Season 2, Episode 6: Disciples on Mission

 

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In the Essentials Podcast, we invite you to be a part of a conversation about what is essential in church ministry.

To effectively make disciples, we must equip them to join Jesus in his mission. This isn't an optional part of being a disciple; it's an essential part.

Together we discuss how being on mission with Jesus is important for forming mature disciples and how our disciple-making communities can help equip people to have natural, spiritual conversations. In this conversation, we are joined by Ashley and Heather Holleman, who are a part of our State College Alliance Church. Ashley serves with Global Service Associates and Heather is an associate teaching professor at Penn State University and author of several books.

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Our team invites you to be a part of this conversation around what is essential. In order to help facilitate that beyond listening to the podcast, we are including a series of discussion questions with each episode that can be used to have these conversations with your church leaders and other pastors.

Season 2, Episode 5: Community is Essential for Making Disciples

 

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In the Essentials Podcast, we invite you to be a part of a conversation about what is essential in church ministry.

Since transformation happens primarily in disciple-making communities, it is important for us to recognize the role that the community itself plays in shaping our people. Together we look at the elements of community that are needed for our development and growth in Christ and how church leaders are called to be cultivators of that community. In this conversation, we are joined by Shawn Andrews, Co-Lead Pastor from Daybreak Church in Mechanicsburg.

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Our team invites you to be a part of this conversation around what is essential. In order to help facilitate that beyond listening to the podcast, we are including a series of discussion questions with each episode that can be used to have these conversations with your church leaders and other pastors.

Season 2, Episode 4: What is a Disciple?

 

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In the Essentials Podcast, we invite you to be a part of a conversation about what is essential in church ministry.

Transformation happens primarily in disciple-making communities. If this is essential in our churches, then we will need to bring definition to what it means to make a disciple. David, Nate, and Alan discuss what they think are the core elements of definition of a disciple and how it impacts the ministries of our church. As a part of this conversation we talk with Brian Kannel, Lead Pastor at York Alliance Church in York, PA.

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Our team invites you to be a part of this conversation around what is essential. In order to help facilitate that beyond listening to the podcast, we are including a series of discussion questions with each episode that can be used to have these conversations with your church leaders and other pastors.

Season 2, Episode 3: Transformation to Multiplication

 

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In the Essentials Podcast, we invite you to be a part of a conversation about what is essential in church ministry.

Building off the previous episode where we discussed how the Gospel transformed us, we pick up with the idea that the other side of that transformation is that it leads to multiplication in our lives. In this way, as the Gospel works in us it naturally changes us to be people focused on making disciples of Jesus. As a part of this conversation, we talk with Steve Wiggins, Lead Pastor at Immanuel Church in Mechanicsburg, PA about a leadership development tool he uses called CORE to help people in his church understand what transformation in Christ looks like that leads to multiplication.

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Our team invites you to be a part of this conversation around what is essential. In order to help facilitate that beyond listening to the podcast, we are including a series of discussion questions with each episode that can be used to have these conversations with your church leaders and other pastors.

Season 2, Episode 2: The Gospel Transforms Us

 

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In the Essentials Podcast, we invite you to be a part of a conversation about what is essential in church ministry.

In our first full-length episode of the season, we revisit the idea that our aim is transformation by unpacking how the Gospel transforms us and what it looks like to live that out in our lives and our churches. For this episode, we are joined by the Alliance Central District Superintendent David Lane.

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Our team invites you to be a part of this conversation around what is essential. In order to help facilitate that beyond listening to the podcast, we are including a series of discussion questions with each episode that can be used to have these conversations with your church leaders and other pastors.

Season 2, Episode 1: Why Revisit the Essentials?

 

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In the Essentials Podcast, we invite you to be a part of a conversation about what is essential in church ministry.

As we kick off our second season almost two years later, we breakdown why we decided to revisit the essentials by discussing what we have observed and learned since walking through COVID with our churches. From that we find that when something it truly essential, it stays essential and deserves our focus.

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Our team invites you to be a part of this conversation around what is essential. In order to help facilitate that beyond listening to the podcast, we are including a series of discussion questions with each episode that can be used to have these conversations with your church leaders and other pastors.

Episode 7: Culture, Metrics, and Structures

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In the Essentials Podcast, we invite you to be a part of a conversation about what is essential in church ministry.

With this episode, we wrap up this season of our podcast by discussing the tools and components that help us in the journey toward a Gospel-saturated community that produces whole-heart transformation.

By focusing on the role that culture, metrics, and structures play into what is essential in our churches, we hope to steer our conversation more and more toward what is big to Jesus.

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Episode 6: Leadership That Embraces the Challenges of Change

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In the Essentials Podcast, we invite you to be a part of a conversation about what is essential in church ministry.

With this episode, we move from talking about the essential end of whole heart transformation to the means of pursuing that end. We discuss the nature of the community of the church today and the elements needed to move us closer to Jesus and his transforming power.

The first element of community was a people that are Gospel fluent. The second element of community that we will be focusing on is faith filled risk and mission. In this episode, we explore the third element of a Gospel saturated community: leadership that embraces the challenges of change. Please join us for this conversation.

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Episode 5: Faith Filled Risk and Mission

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In the Essentials Podcast, we invite you to be a part of a conversation about what is essential in church ministry.

With this episode, we move from talking about the essential end of whole heart transformation to the means of pursuing that end. We discuss the nature of the community of the church today and the elements needed to move us closer to Jesus and his transforming power.

The first element of community was a people that are Gospel fluent. The second element of community that we will be focusing on is faith filled risk and mission. Please join us for this conversation.

YOU ARE INVITED TO THE CONVERSATION.

Episode 4: Gospel Saturated Community: People That Are Gospel Fluent

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In the Essentials Podcast, we invite you to be a part of a conversation about what is essential in church ministry.

With this episode, we move from talking about the essential end of whole heart transformation to the means of pursuing that end. We discuss the nature of the community of the church today and the elements needed to move us closer to Jesus and his transforming power.

YOU ARE INVITED TO THE CONVERSATION.

Episode 2: Whole Heart Transformation

 

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In the Essentials Podcast, we invite you to be a part of a conversation about what is essential in church ministry.

Throughout this second episode, we will discuss these questions:

  • What is an essential end? Why is it important? What does our team see as an essential end?

  • What is big to Jesus in the lives of our churches?

  • What does it mean to have Gospel impact?

  • What is the current reality of how we see the ends of our churches?

  • What does it look like to be the transformed people of Jesus in our community?

  • What prevents transformation from taking place in our churches?

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Episode 1: What is Essential?

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In the opening episode of this new podcast from the Eastern PA District team, we invite you to be a part of a conversation about what is essential in church ministry.

Throughout the episode, we will discuss these questions:

  • Why do we need to talk about the essentials?

  • What is the current reality that is leading us to have this conversation?

  • What do we need to begin to ask ourselves in order to define the essentials?

  • Is what is big to Jesus big to me?

  • How do the habits and rhythms of your church emphasize what is essential in your church?

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