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 54 of the podcast.

My name is Carrie Newhoff and I really hope our time together today

helps you lead like never before.

And if you're listening to this on release day,

come hang out with me. I'm in California. I'm in Irvine, California

on the orange tour today and tomorrow, September 22nd and 23rd. I would love to say

hello to you. Come hang out. If you're senior leader we will have lunch.

It's going to be awesome. You can get all the details on orange tour.org and you can

pick up a copy of my brand new book called Lasting Impact. I'll tell you more about that in just a second. But in the meantime, let me tell you all about today's episode. I am so thrilled to have Judd Wilhite on the podcast. Judd is an incredible leader, somebody that I've

admired for a long time and had a chance to meet on a couple of different occasions and we

sort of kept in touch and I'm just so thrilled to have

him on the podcast he serves as senior pastor of Central Christian Church and you know

most churches and you're probably in this situation are not church plants. They're just not I planted a church I've transitioned a church vast majority of church leaders who listen to this podcast are doing what Judd tried to do, which is to transition a church.

And it is stinking hard work.

It just is.

I mean, you've got to take 10, 20, 50 years, 100 years, 200 years of tradition behind you, and then kind of find a way to the future.

And it's just not easy.

And Judd had a doubly difficult task. He took over Central Church when he was 32 years old, and he took it over from Jean Apple, who was leaving to go on to become the new senior leader at Willow Creek to replace Bill Hyblst.

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