Episode 162: On Firing Church Staff

Pastors Talk - A podcast by 9Marks

9Marks

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Firing someone is almost always hard, perhaps especially in the church. In this episode of Pastors Talk, Jonathan chats with Mark about this difficult topic, one that Mark says is a personal weakness of his.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Jonathan Lehman.
0:07.9	And I am Mark Devere.
0:09.8	And welcome to this episode of Nine Marks Pastors Talk.
0:12.2	Nine Marks exist to equip church leaders with a biblical vision and practical resources for building healthy churches learn more at nine marks.org.
0:20.7	Do you hear a bird?
0:22.7	That's the weirdest thing.
0:24.4	Oh, Alberto got a new control desk that has these like sounds.
0:27.9	Alberto, stop it.
0:28.8	So we are going to take these pastor songs to places they have never been before.
0:34.8	Yeah, like the forest.
0:37.3	Exactly.
0:38.2	Thank you.
0:39.3	I feel inspired.
0:40.6	Go ahead.
0:41.1	Well, you and I regularly have these conversations with pastors and a conversation that we've had, we've been a part of in the past.
0:47.6	I can think of a distinct time when we were doing this one of our, a phone call, you and I were on with some other, with a pastor.
0:54.2	And it's like, Mark, I got to fire this guy.
0:56.3	I feel like I should, but I'm not sure if I should.
0:58.1	I can think one friend who I'm been a regular firing consultant with.
1:02.0	Okay.
1:02.8	Well, yeah.
1:03.4	So that's the conversation I want to have.
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