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 37 of the podcast. My name is Carrie Newhoff and I hope our time

together today helps you lead like never before. And thanks so much for tuning in. Today

you're going to hear from Chris Rivers and Chris is somebody who really talks all about

church culture and I don't know whether you think a lot about church culture. I

personally as a leader leading Connectes Church where I serve have thought a lot

about culture lately as we grow to now over 2,200 people

who call our church home and what's our culture and I mean our staff I mean we used to be able to

meet in a car and now we've got like 15 people who are in staff on

one capacity or another and so we I'm thinking a lot about culture and that's why

this interview has been super helpful for me and and Chris actually helped us do a culture assessment and

help me see that okay there's some areas where I thought our culture was

crystal clear and it's not and he's gonna walk through some of those principles

and so you might say well I don't really think about our

church culture so I'm not sure this applies to me you just need to know you have a

culture in whatever organization you're a part of whether you've ever thought

about it or not and your culture is either a good culture or it is a bad culture.

And your culture either helps you accomplish your mission,

or it hurts you as you try to accomplish your mission.

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