S8 Ep884: Facing Burnout in a Post-Covid Church: Dan White Jr

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🗓️ 15 July 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I talk to Dan White about what it’s like burning out of ministry and how to cultivate healthier rhythms to prevent this from happening (again). Part of the problem is the internet and social media. Our prefrontal contexes never rest! We’re constantly bombarded with stuff to process. And COVID only exacerbated this problem. During COVID, many churches played into the consumeristic mindset of people by producing MORE content, more sermons, more stuff for people to consume. But now that the COVID dust has settled, many people aren’t coming back to church. Why is this? How can we “get people back?” Or--is that even the right question to ask?

Dan has planted and pastored in rural, suburban, and urban churches for the last 20+ years. Currently, Dan and Tonya are in the starting and building stage of opening The Kineo Renewal and Retreat Center in Puerto Rico. Dan White Jr is a church planting strategist with the V3 Movement, coaching cohorts through an 18-month missional training system. Dan has coached over 200 new innovative faith communities across the country. He co-founded the Praxis Gathering, a yearly conference that equips practitioners in the hands-on work of following Jesus deeper into our local places. Dan graduated with his B.A. in Counseling from Davis College and his M.A. in theology from Capital Seminary and is the author of Church as Movement and Love Over Fear.

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0:00.0	Hello friends welcome back to another episode of theology in the raw I have on the show today Dan
0:05.0	White Jr. Dan White and his wife Tanya they run the Kineho renewal and retreat center in Porto Rico
0:13.8	and Dan has been a church planning strategist with the V3 movement for quite some time now. He also
0:20.4	co-founded practice the practice gathering a yearly conference that equips practitioners in the hands
0:25.9	and work following Jesus deeper into our local places. Most famously Dan was on the theologian
0:32.8	royal podcast a few couple of years ago I think and I remember in that episode I still remember
0:37.6	that episode where Dan talked about and maybe even coined the phrase the church industrial
0:44.2	complex and talked about how he had been engaging in the church industrial complex for quite some
0:52.1	time and it led him to a season of burnout and just rethinking what it means to be the body of
0:58.8	Christ and so Dan is one of those guys that I think has a lot of great wisdom that comes from
1:06.2	not just thinking and reading but a lot of experience on what it means to be the church and so
1:11.6	he has a lot of maybe different ideas of what the church should be and look like and so I love
1:18.7	talking to Dan about how to think and rethink church especially in what we are now in you know
1:25.2	this post covid world and Dan is just a super thoughtful guy you're going to enjoy this conversation
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2:08.8	ado let's get to know if you want to only Dan white junior
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