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The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast

CNLP 508 | Sam Collier on How to Build Momentum in Church Plants, Leaving Hillsong, and the People Who Start with You Will Leave

The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast

Carey Nieuwhof

Management, Business

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2022

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Story Church founder, Sam Collier, opens up about planting a church during a pandemic, why he started with Hillsong and decided to leave, replanting his church, leading while bleeding and why big church is the new small church. For more on this episode, go to https://careynieuwhof.com/episode508.

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0:00.0

The Art of Leadership Network Welcome to the Kerry New Hoff Leadership Podcast.

0:10.4

It's Kerry here and this is Episode 5.08.

0:13.2

We are going to sit down home with Sam Collier.

0:16.5

And today's episode is brought to you by Tithely.

0:18.8

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0:23.2

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0:29.3

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0:35.5

slash Kerry.

0:36.5

Well, it's good to have my good friend Sam Collier back.

0:39.3

We are going to talk about opening up a church during the pandemic.

0:43.1

He kind of planted twice, which is interesting.

0:45.6

He started with Hillsong, decided to leave, replanted his church, a story church, and we

0:50.7

talk about all that, the backstory behind that and then leading while bleeding and why

0:55.3

small church is the new big church.

0:58.2

So really glad to have Sam back on the podcast.

1:01.4

He is the lead pastor of story church Atlanta.

1:04.3

He's also the founder of a greater story ministries, which houses a nationally televised

1:08.6

interview series and a podcast called a greater story with Sam Collier.

1:12.5

He also has a partnership with Baker Publishing, which recently released his book, A Greater

1:18.1

Story.

1:19.1

Previously, Sam at North Point Ministries, Ebenezer Baptist, New Birth Church, Orange

1:24.1

Leaders, and most recently, Hillsong Atlanta, where he was a former lead pastor.

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