Unexpected Ways the Gospel Shapes Your Leadership - Eddie Byun - 239 - FrontStage BackStage with Jason Daye

Pastor, professor, and author Eddie Byun explores the unexpected ways the gospel can reshape our motivations, staff relationships, ministry practices, and the way we understand our role as leaders.

How deeply does the gospel shape the way we actually lead? Pastor, professor, and author Eddie Byun joins Jason Daye to explore the unexpected ways gospel integrity can reshape the motivations, relationships, and everyday leadership practices of pastors and ministry leaders.

Most pastors would readily say the gospel should influence every part of our lives and ministries. Yet there can be a significant difference between understanding and preaching the gospel and allowing its implications to reach into the ordinary ways we lead. Even ministry that appears faithful and fruitful on the outside can be driven by very different motivations beneath the surface.

Eddie has spent more than 25 years pastoring and teaching ministry leaders around the world and currently serves as Director of the Doctor of Ministry program and Associate Professor of Christian Ministry at Talbot School of Theology at Biola University. In his newest book, Gospel Integrity: Moving the Heart from Duty to Beauty, he explores what happens when the gospel moves beyond something we believe and proclaim and begins reshaping our motivations, relationships, and ministry leadership.

In this conversation, Eddie and Jason explore some surprisingly practical places where the gospel challenges assumptions pastors and ministry leaders can easily develop about faithful and effective ministry.

Together they discuss:

• How outwardly faithful ministry can sometimes conceal very different motivations beneath the surface
• What our desire for ministry growth, influence, and impact might reveal about what is happening within us
• The subtle ways pressure within a pastor can become pressure experienced by the people they lead
• What the way we treat church staff may reveal about our own understanding of grace and gospel integrity
• How the gospel might challenge some surprisingly ordinary ways churches approach generosity, accountability, and mistakes
• What can help the gospel move from something we understand and preach to something that increasingly shapes the way we actually lead

If you're a pastor or ministry leader who wants the gospel to shape more than what you preach, this conversation invites you to consider where grace may still have something to change in the way you approach ministry leadership. Eddie offers a hopeful vision of gospel integrity that isn't about adding another expectation to an already demanding calling, but allowing the grace and beauty of Jesus to reach more deeply into the way we serve, relate to others, and lead.

Looking to dig more deeply into this topic and conversation? FrontStage BackStage is much more than another church leadership show, it is a complete resource to help you and your ministry leaders grow. Every week we go the extra mile and create a free toolkit so you and your ministry team can dive deeper into the topic that is discussed.

Visit http://PastorServe.org/network to find the Weekly Toolkit, including the Ministry Leaders Growth Guide. Our team pulls key insights and quotes from every conversation with our guests. We also create engaging questions for you and your team to consider and process, providing space for you to reflect on how each episode's topic relates to your unique church context. Use these questions in your staff meetings, or other settings, to guide your conversation as you invest in the growth of your ministry leaders.

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