A Latter-day Saint Bishop Sits Down with Four Evangelical Pastors
Leading Saints Podcast
Leading Saints
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🗓️ 15 June 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast, Kurt Francom sits down with four Evangelical Protestant pastors, Jeff McCullough of Hello Saints, Curtis Gilbert—a senior pastor in Shiloh, Illinois, Kyle Beshears, —pastor of a nondenominational church in Mobile, Alabama, and Nate Fox—pastor of Lightstone Church in Herriman, Utah. This conversation is part of the Hello Saints Summit, happening June 11-20, 2024, which involves two dozen Latter-day Saint and Protestant presenters—all FREE to watch!
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Highlights
00:02:06 – Introductions of the four evangelical pastors
00:07:11 – Unexpected call to serve as a bishop
00:15:38 – Pastors sharing their unique stories of being called into ministry
00:26:08 – Typical week in the life of a pastor
00:28:40 – Discussion on burnout and validation in pastoral roles
00:35:49 – Importance of humility and avoiding self-validation in ministry
00:43:46 – Involving and supporting pastors’ spouses in ministry
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the leading Saints podcast. Now if you're not aware something pretty awesome is happening |
| 0:06.5 | the weekend of this release of this episode you're listening to right now. We are in the middle |
| 0:12.0 | of a virtual conference that we are helping out |
| 0:15.2 | Hello Saints, Pastor Jeff McCullough really pull off and execute and make it awesome. |
| 0:21.2 | And so I wanted to feature a session that I was involved in |
| 0:25.4 | that was that is part of this hello Saints virtual summit and it was such a fun |
| 0:30.6 | discussion I wanted to give you an early glimpse at it and then |
| 0:34.5 | encourage you to go sign up for free. There's still an opportunity to see all |
| 0:38.7 | the sessions that have happened. So go sign up for free at Hello Saints. I'll put the link and everything in the |
| 0:44.5 | description to this episode and you're going to love it. So this episode I sit down |
| 0:49.7 | through the magic of the internet with four evangelical pastors. |
| 0:54.4 | You see we did an interview on the flip side |
| 0:56.8 | where Jeff, pastor Jeff, sits down with three bishops, |
| 1:00.4 | me being one of those bishops. |
| 1:01.8 | And so we wanted to do the same thing |
| 1:03.8 | but the other way around, does that make sense? |
| 1:05.7 | Where I sit down with evangelical pastors, |
| 1:07.8 | and we talk about general leadership things. |
| 1:09.6 | What's it like being a pastor? |
| 1:10.8 | What's a day in the life like? |
| 1:12.4 | What has your most concern, what's |
| 1:14.2 | burnout like for a pastor, and just these little things that we could learn from |
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