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Leading Saints Podcast

How I Lead as Bishop | An Interview with Jordan Romans

Leading Saints Podcast

Leading Saints

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Jordan Romans served in the Australia Brisbane mission and graduated from BYU with a BA in English. He holds an MBA in Marketing from the University of Phoenix and is the founder and managing director of JLR Creative & Consulting, with 15+ years in sales, marketing, training, and management roles in the medical and aesthetic sales industry. He is currently serving as a bishop in the Beaver Creek Ward in Apex, North Carolina, right by the Raleigh Temple. His previous church callings include bishopric counselor, elders quorum president, Young Men president, ward mission leader, executive assistant, Primary Worker, and Gospel Doctrine instructor. Jordan is married to Melissa Romans and they have four children. Highlights 5:10 Remembering his first Sunday as bishop and the recognition that what he said could be taken as "the gospel truth" by those he counseled 8:45 Advice from his dad: You're not going to solve anybody's problems. The Savior will do that. Principles of Leadership 1. The Lord's forgiveness is essentially immediate (10:00) 12:00 If we can believe it, then the repentance process is easier, more effective, and longer-lasting; Forgiveness is freely offered and we must bring the sincerity 14:20 Christ is not interested in punishment, but in progression 2. Leaders should do more to build bridges outside the ward community (14:50) Minister friend at a local Methodist Church 16:25 Youth cookie bake service project with the youth from both congregations 18:00 Podcast discussion about the rededication of the Raleigh Temple 19:25 People in the South are open and willing to invite others to church 22:50 The stake's annual Community Leaders Luncheon for civic and community leaders 3. Callings are Rarely about Efficiency or Proficiency (27:50) We just have to be willing to serve 31:25 As a bishop, his dad once called a Sunday School teacher who was not a member; "The Lord wasn't interested in his proficiency. He was interested in Brother Barnes." 33:35 Prompting to call a sister as Young Womens president who wasn't baptized yet 39:25 Going down the list and looking for the least-likely candidate 41:15 Recognizing how involved Christ is in the bishop's service; recognizing that others can lead while you lead Links Views From the Peak: Jordan Romans Read the TRANSCRIPT of this podcast. Note: This transcript was machine-produced. We would be grateful for help correcting errors. You can help! Simply copy/paste the transcript text into a document, make the corrections, and then copy/paste the corrected text into a comment on the page (below) and we will get the corrected text published!

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As Latter-day Saint leaders, we face very difficult conversations that put us at risk of saying the wrong thing that can do more harm than good.

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Many of these conversations relate to LGBTQ Latter-day Saints.

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Have you had a fellow board member come out to you

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about their LGBT identity?

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Have you had LGBT neighbors?

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And you just don't know what to say to them,

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so you ignore them instead. Have you wrestled with

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balancing love for your fellow men while still respecting the doctrines of the

0:28.2

restored gospel? In order to help, leading Saints has put together the LGBT Saints Library with more than 20 presentations featuring

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individuals who have a unique perspective or expertise around this topic.

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Three of the most popular sessions are available now to watch.

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Simply text the word lead to 474-7-47 to start watching now or visit Leaning Saints.

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org.

0:51.7

LGBT. Saints. I'm from Spokane, Washington. I've been listening to

1:04.0

Leaving Saints and the podcast as well as the summit. The thing that I enjoy most about

1:08.9

it is listening to

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really into the specific questions of the people that he's talking with and interviewing

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and really dig deep to really bring to the surface

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what a lot of us are wondering about curious about and looking for insights on how we could

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be better understanding and just improving our lives that way I just think it's a

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incredible resource that that's out there. Leading Saints is a non-profit organization dedicated helping Latter-day Saints be better

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prepared to lead and we do that through content creation like this podcast which we hope you

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