#220 | On Pastoring with Steve Gaines
On Preaching with H.B. Charles Jr.
H.B. Charles, Jr.
4.9 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In this throwback episode, we continue our revisit of H.B.’s 2023 conversation with Steve Gaines, Pastor Emeritus of Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee. After serving as Senior Pastor for 19 years, Dr. Gaines transitioned to his emeritus role in 2024. He also served as the President of the Southern Baptist Convention from 2016 to 2018. He continues to be a widely respected voice in the areas of prayer, evangelism, and pastoral ministry.
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| 0:00.0 | So, friends, this podcast started some years ago as a personal hobby. |
| 0:06.1 | It has become a little more than that. |
| 0:09.4 | Over the years of this podcast, I have basically done all of the work of the podcast by myself, show notes, recording, editing. |
| 0:19.6 | But I'm grateful that I have a new partnership with Luke Clayton |
| 0:23.9 | and the team at IncreaseCreative.co. They are helping me to produce each new episode of this |
| 0:31.9 | podcast. So this will, I hope, help us to publish on a more regular basis on Mondays |
| 0:39.6 | and will up the game on the quality of this podcast. |
| 0:43.7 | Luke and his team does great, great work. |
| 0:46.3 | I'd love to commend them to you. |
| 0:47.8 | You could look them up again at increasedcreative.com |
| 0:50.9 | or find more information on the show notes of this episode. |
| 0:55.1 | Check them out. |
| 0:57.9 | This is the On Preaching Podcast with H.B. Charles Jr. |
| 1:02.4 | The podcast dedicated to helping you preach faithfully, clearly, and better. |
| 1:10.0 | So, everyone... and better. So everyone has, in any pastorate, competing responsibilities, no matter the size of the church. |
| 1:23.6 | Absolutely. |
| 1:24.6 | I think one of the fallacies that I had crushed coming to a larger church, but that you had a much larger church and you got more staff, and that means you can just hold up and study all day. |
| 1:36.4 | You ain't got other things to worry about, and that just does not work. |
| 1:39.7 | Yeah, I had a guy at a time in one time and said, yeah, you got a big church, you don't have any problems. |
| 1:44.0 | I said, you know, there's enough ignorance in that. |
| 1:46.8 | To ignorant up all of Tennessee. |
| 1:48.6 | And I know ignorant is not a verb, but I just use it. |
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