Ep. 157 The Truth about Pastors | The Debrief Podcast with Matt Brown

The Debrief Podcast with Matthew Stephen Brown

Sandals Church

Spirituality, Christianity, Deconstruction, Religion & Spirituality, Culture, Faith

4.9 • 799 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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What does it take to lead a church? How do you know if you’re called to be a pastor? What does God have to say about it all? Listen in as Sandals Church pastors Matt Brown, Adam Atchison and Alfredo Ramos give real answers to your questions about pastors and church leadership.

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0:00.0	Well, hey everybody and welcome to the debrief with your friends here at Sandal Church.
0:14.5	My name is Stephanie Schaefer here with the PMB and two of our lovely guests.
0:18.0	We've got Pastor Fraterramas and Pastor Adam Atchison.
0:21.4	And you guys have been helping Pastor Matt Prep the series that we just started right now.
0:24.8	Can you guys talk some about invited and what it is we're doing for the next few weeks here at Sandals Church?
0:28.2	Does we get ready for Christmas?
0:29.3	Yeah, go ahead.
0:29.9	Yeah, so invited is the idea of letting our church and our people know who we are and what we do. And so we want to be up front in a church that's all about being real.
0:41.9	We don't want to pull the wool over anybody's eyes.
0:43.9	We want to let you know what you're getting into in a sense, what we expect of people
0:48.4	who call Sandals Church home, the exciting things that God is doing.
0:52.4	And so we started off this week, obviously, with how we look to leaders and the qualifications
0:58.0	biblically for leaders and what you can entrust yourself to with leadership in the church
1:04.7	at Sandals based on 1st Timothy 3.
1:07.8	Yeah. Now, I would just add kind of to your intro from this last sermon that it's not so much that we've invited God into our lives, but he's really inviting us into his. Yeah. Now I would just add kind of to your intro from this last sermon that it's not so much
1:11.5	that we've invited God into our lives, but he's really inviting us into his story. And that's
1:16.5	kind of the nature of Jesus' life and ministry, inviting people to know him and follow him.
1:21.4	Yeah, absolutely. And so when we were talking about how to open, there was a couple reasons that I
1:25.2	picked the passage to open that we did. But really when we got down to verses, I think it was 13 through 15, or it was 11 through 13, I can't
1:31.7	remember in 1st Timothy 3. He says so that you may teach people how to act in the household
1:36.8	of God. And so we just want to just be reminded that we're being invited to God's house.
1:42.0	And so I think we get, the church has become very unhealthy and dysfunctional when we think about them in terms of, this is my church.
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