Team Church Podcast Kevin Gerald, Lead Pastor at Champions Centre

Here at Team Church we love and value the church. The church is God's plan A. There is no plan B. But one area that we need to do some work is creating a bridge between theology and building the local church. Listen in on this talk with Nathan Finochio and Kevin Gerald as they discuss why speaking truth and theology matters for leaders.

Every team watching or listening has experienced some kind of loss or tension this past year. There are wins and there are losses. There are teams and there are players. But not every team has TEAM PLAYERS. Pastor Micah Pelkey helps break down what makes some teams bad and other teams great. 

The only way for the church to get better is for the team to get better, and for the team to get better the individual members of the team have to get better. That means you! You must keep improving your personal growth capacity in order to improve the team. 

In this episode with Pastor Kevin Gerald, we'll give you five areas to work on in your own life. The good news is most of these you can start today! 
Your attitude towards your workYour personal productivityYour recruitment and training skillsYour communication skillsYour collaboration with others on your teamThen answer this one question:
What's one decision you can make today that will stimulate your personal growth?

No one wants to feel stuck—stuck in the past, or stuck in the current. One of the constant themes of scripture is the theme of moving forward. So as leaders we have to remember that God’s not lingering in yesterday, but he wants to help us move forward into tomorrow.

In this episode we will discuss five very practical questions you can ask yourself in order to assess your current position as a leader.   

“To look forward, you have to first face forward.”  —Kevin Gerald 

Honor is essential to any group that wants to make progress. It's not optional. Everything is better with honor. But our culture today has seen a drift and decay on the subject of honoring authority. We had a chance to bring some young leaders on the podcast to talk with Pastor Kevin about the subject of honoring authority. Here are some of the questions they asked:

What is a mistake a leader may make to unintentionally or indirectly dishonor authority?

How can we help leaders differentiate between the voices of this world to find the right one so that they can ultimately submit under authority?

How would you handle a team members who have come from bad authority backgrounds?

Can you speak into the importance of being depended on (by their leader) and following through and also how you teach young leaders about being dependable and responsible without crushing their free spiritedness and creativity?

Today's culture is quick to disrespect authority. It's popular to point out the failures in others. This is one trend that we can't afford to follow. We must let God shape our attitudes about authority. In this episode, Pastor Kevin lays out four steps to honoring authority. Our hope is that this can be a paradigm shift for young leaders and we can begin to move the needle towards honor in our churches and communities.