Rural Revitalization Podcast: Recent Episodes
Robert Beckett
The Rural Revitalization Network is committed to encouraging pastors, churches, and communities throughout rural America to engage, equip, and empower through local resources to build God’s church. Rural churches are still at the heart of God’s plan, and remains relevant to the call, worthy of our effort to help, and we stand committed with each pastor, church, and community to win the lost for Christ.
We can not let good enough get in the way of doing and being excellence for the service of God.
Discussing the need for pastoral mentorship. Talking about the fact that pastors need someone that they can talk to in times of frustration and the pressures of ministry.
Discover how identity abuse can affect you personally and as a church body. Understanding that God is the one that determines your identity.
Rhonda Mathisen on the book Desparate. Talking about the need of the manifest presence of God in our churches.
No matter how small or insignificant that we may feel, God has a great work to do with you.
To be able to successfully accomplish the vision, mission, and implementation of the task that God has given us for our church we must do.
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Are we really all evangelists? Do you know anyone who is gifted as an evangelist?
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Do you feel pressure as a Christian to act like evangelists? In what ways do you most typically share your faith with or demonstrate it to your friends and neighbors?
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What measures can you take in your church to help you and your other fellow church members to become better witnesses for Jesus Christ?
Once God has given you the vision and mission of the church you nned to implement the startegy to acomplish the goals.
Can your church answer the question, what is your church trying to do? Who is your church trying to reach?
Does your church have a concise mission statement that defines your why and how?
Building leaders during uncharted Territory. Explorers Lewis and Clark had to adapt. While they had prepared to find a waterway to the Pacific Ocean, instead they found themselves in the Rocky Mountains. You too may feel that you are leading in a cultural context you were not expecting. You may even feel that your training holds you back more often than it carries you along. Drawing from his extensive experience as a pastor and consultant, Tod Bolsinger brings decades of expertise in guiding churches and organizations through uncharted territory.
Welcome to the Network. The Rural Revitalization Network is committed to encouraging pastors, churches, and communities throughout rural America to Engage, Equip, and Empower through local resources to build God’s church.