Welcome to the Carrie Newhoff Leadership Podcast. A podcast all about leadership, change and personal growth.

The goal, to help you lead like never before.

In your church or in your business.

And now your host, Carrie Newhoff.

Well, hey everybody and welcome to episode 11 of the podcast. I'm Carrie New Hoff and I'm so glad that you took some time to join in today and I hope wherever you are whatever you're doing that this helps you and your team lead like never before. I am

super excited for today's guests. We've got Pete Wilson on the podcast. Pete is

the senior pastor of Cross Point Church in Nashville, Tennessee.

They are about five campuses and over 5,000 people.

It's a church plant from the last decade, and God has used Cross Point for extraordinary things but what I love about Pete is his honesty and his transparency and I don't know where this podcast finds you I mean we're recording it in a season where the days are getting shorter, nights are

getting longer and unless you live in Australia and I know we got a few

listeners in Australia it's also getting colder where you live too isn't it and I

know it can be so easy to get overwhelmed or discouraged or kind of feel

defeated in a season like this. And if you've ever been there or you're there right now,

you're going to love to hear what Pete has to talk about

today because he's going to talk about how he has had to overcome that in his own

life which if you're like me if you kind of have my perspective that probably

seems surprising because you're like, Pete, you have an amazing story. I mean, very few churches grow the way crosspoint church has and it would be so easy to go, you know what, if I just had that kind of life I wouldn't have any

worries I wouldn't have any struggles and of course I know we know that's not true and

it's certainly not true but sometimes it feels like that's true.

And that's why I think today is going to be such a great interview with Pete, because he's

just honest about how he struggled at times where he's felt like quitting times where he has

been dissatisfied with results and what he does to keep it all in balance

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