Welcome to the Leadership Now Podcast with Dr. Aaron Rock, hosted on Beachhead Media and other

podcasting platforms. Aaron has served as a pastor, a chaplain, a professor, a writer, and

a speaker, and he has a keen interest in helping other a theology, church life, cultural issues, pastoral leadership, ethics, and other relevant matters that will help you to lead better now.

I'm your guest host, Chris Yeoman filling in for Eric as he's a way on vacation and

today we're going to continue in our series on life stages. So we know that

the Christians are called to make disciples and that includes obviously communicating the gospel and teaching doctrine but there's also

wisdom in passing on I guess wisdom you could say from older to younger offering wise counsel and throughout the Bible we see that in places like the

proverbs ecclesiasties even in relationships like Paul to Timothy giving

wise counsel and so we've been doing this series called life stages and you've

probably listened to a couple episodes on the teens and the 20s and now today fittingly

We're on the 30s so the prime of life the best stage of life because I'm in my 30s. Of course. So, so you want to introduce the topic for today?

Yeah, so I had I had Eric do the 20s. You're doing the 30s, so I got to find a 40 year old house for next for the next episode.

Yeah, so obviously we don't want people to think,

and I don't think people would conclude this,

but we'll just say it.

Obviously this advice isn't like strictly tied to your birthday. It's not like you're a completely

different person on the final day that you're 29 as opposed to the first day that you're 30.

But I do think that just like in high school, so you have grade 9, 10, 11, 12, grade 10 is kind of the

equivalent of your 30s. It's kind of the second major decade in your adult life.

And there are certain things, certain goals

I think you should set and certain perspectives

you should adopt in your 30s

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