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Leading Saints Podcast

5 Reasons Negative Church Culture Exists

Leading Saints Podcast

Leading Saints

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In this solo episode, Kurt Francom discusses five reasons behind the development of negative culture within the church, and what we can each do to recognize it and take action to stimulate positive culture. Highlights 4:45 Church culture is the monster in the room. 6:15 Why does negative church culture exist? 7:00 Church culture is creating a never-ending judgment loop. 9:15 Reason one - Lack of ability. It’s not about lack of motivation. It’s an ability problem. 12:30 Sometimes it’s not for lack of trying but lack of skills. Some people have the skills to teach, lead, or show empathy. Some try but they have to develop these skills. 15:00 Reason two - Negative mindsets. Our mindset is the lens through which we see the world. 17:00 Open mindsets create psychological safety. Psychological safety roots out negative church culture. Everyone feels safe to express opinions and feelings. 18:00 Examples of leaders that have different mindsets and how it affects those in the ward. 22:10 Reason three - Misunderstanding doctrine. Embracing false doctrines as truth. 25:50 Example of misunderstanding doctrine. The push for youth to serve missions can lead to people misunderstanding that missions are a saving ordinance. 27:35 Reason four - Lack of exposure. Expose yourself to a diversity of lifestyles and hear people’s stories to gain a higher level of empathy. Many times we project our life experience onto others. 32:00 Seeking exposure to different types of people and gaining more empathy is not a passive exercise. It's a very proactive effort. This is why it’s so difficult to perpetuate a positive church culture. 34:15 Ideas of how to gain more exposure. Ask people their stories. Exposing ourselves to other people’s experience gives us so much love for them. 36:50 Reason five - Lack of self awareness. Take the time to know what kind of leader you are. Gain a deeper understanding of yourself and how other people perceive you. People perceive us differently than we perceive ourselves. 42:15 What do we do with these five reasons? The goal is to stimulate positive culture. Links Is Your Mindset Limiting Your Leadership? | An Interview with Ryan Gottfredson The Research Behind Becoming Christlike | An Interview with Ryan Gottfredson Success Mindsets: Your Keys to Unlocking Greater Success in Life, Work, and Leadership Is Aspiring Wrong? What I Learned About Leadership When My 2nd Counselor Left the Church North Star International Bridges: Ministering to Those Who Question Ministering to Those Who Question | An Interview with David Ostler Read the TRANSCRIPT of this podcast

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We live in a world plagued by pornography and people are looking for help.

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When an individual struggles with pornography, they often turn to their church leader for that help.

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How does a leader help a person overcome the shame of this

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issue and start seeing positive progress? How can a leader help youth to open up

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about struggles with pornography? What are some lasting proven tactics that actually make a difference?

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In order to help, leading Saints has created the Liberating Saints Library with more than 20

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presentations featuring individuals who have a unique perspective or expertise

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around this topic. Three of those most popular sessions are available to watch now.

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Simply text the word lead to 4747.

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To start watching now or visit leading Saints.org slash liberating.

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And remember, text the word lead to 4747.

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In order to access the three most popular sessions of the

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Liberating Saints library.

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Welcome back to the Leading Saints Podcast.

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Leading Saints is a non-profit organization dedicated helping Latter-day Saints be better prepared to lead.

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And we do that through content creation, much like this podcast. We have articles at

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also has unique content so let's jump into this week's episode. Oh, everyone this is Kurt Frankham with leading Saints and in this episode it's just me

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it's a solo episode a monologue if you will and I'm excited to share with you some

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thoughts all around the concept of church culture.

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What is this thing we always talk about church culture?

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Now some of my thoughts and feelings around this, you know, as I do solo episodes here and there, often come from the newsletter.

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