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In this episode of Women's Ministry Toolbox Podcast, we dive deep into the State of Women's Ministry. This recently-released survey by Lifeway polled 1001 female churchgoers and 842 women's ministry leaders on all things ministry-related. 

We'll take a look at what the survey says about:

• What women want from women's ministry
• The ages of women participating in women's ministry
• What women's ministry planning looks like in other churches
• How many leaders are paid
• How many churches provide a women's ministry budget
• And more!

Get ready for eye-opening statistics and insights that will challenge your approach!

Show notes available at https://womensministrytoolbox.com/unpacking-the-state-of-womens-ministry-insights-from-lifeways-survey/.

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Should churches use such data for decision making? Then, an interview with Pastor Chris Castaldo from New Covenant Church in Naperville, Illinois--and later, Brian gets nostalgic about the early days of The Common Good (when he and Ian recorded shows in Chris Castaldo's church basement!)

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Lifeway Research is a go-to resource for journalists, pastors, readers, and anyone interested in church trends. But how do they choose study topics and participants? Scott McConnell joins us to talk about it, plus big picture trends he's noticing in church attendance and exciting new research coming up.

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Every story matters because God is in everything.  Meet a new friend of mine, Nikki Tigg who loves Jesus and shares hope with women and teens.  She is a Speaker, Blogger, Pro-Life Advocate, & Host of the Constant Surrender Podcast.  Nikki shares with us a simple story with big takeaways for each one of our lives.  She provides some deep wisdom on how we can easily manufacture situations and try to take the lead on things. Plus, encountering others who have good intentions, but can cause us to go in the wrong direction.

Almost right, is still wrong.  - Nikki Tigg

Nikki shares how she grew in her faith to not move in her life till God says go.  That mindset can be difficult when we just don't want to listen. However, she has grown to hear His voice so she can continue to be led. I hope you enjoy this conversation with Nikki Tigg.

Reflection Questions

1. What is something in your life that feels almost right but it is still wrong? Take time to journal through that.
2. God works in the in-between of our life, how can you give God the glory right now in the midst of the in-between?

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Today on the podcast Rachel will be chatting with Jackie Bledsoe. Jackie Bledsoe is an author, podcast host, and speaker who's reached over 100,000 couples with his bestselling book, The 7 Rings of Marriage. He helps couples build strong marriages and families, so they can positively change their family tree.

He's also an entrepreneur who shares what he's learned from starting a blog, writing a book, and turning it into a business. He helps couples create amazing lives and marriages together that will change the world!

He and his wife, Stephana, are the founders of Happily Married Couples, a marriage training platform and community that helps couples connect and communicate while leading them through a powerful and proven marriage success path.

You may have seen or heard Jackie on ABC News, The 700 Club, Moody Radio, YouVersion's Bible App, or through his work with LifeWay, FamilyLife, and The Wesleyan Church World Headquarters.

You can learn more about Jackie on his blog, JackieBledsoe.com, and get help for your marriage at HappilyMarriedCouples.com.

In this Episode we talk about about:

• After Jackie lost a job & “failed” at business, he took up the challenge that his mentor presented to him which was to write a new blog post everyday for a year.
• The power of mentorship.
• How understanding that his gift is to teach allowed him to boldly pursue writing.

Resources and Links:

Jackie’s Blog | JackieBledsoe.com

Happy Married Couples Website | happilymarriedcouples.com

Happy Married Couples Podcast | happilymarriedcouples.com/hwbt

Find Jackie on Social | @jackiebledsoejr

Find Happy Married Couples on Social | @ForHappyCouples

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In this Random Nun Clip, Sister Joan Dawber describes how Catholic sisters live in community and hope with women who’ve survived human trafficking. Hear the full In Good Faith episode IGF042 at aNunsLife.org. 

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Zack brought us the last message in the "We're Just Talking" series, and it was all about dating. From Ephesians 5 and 2nd Timothy 2. 

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We lost power! But Collective still went on. Zack brought a message from Philippians 2 about the "Talking Phase." 

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Kendall brought a message from 1st Timothy 4 on Singleness, and we talked about setting an example in the areas of speech, faith, love, conduct, and purity.

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Zack brought a message from Judges 16 on Samson & Delilah, and we started to answer the question "When Should I Date?"

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• Weekly Wisdom and Wonderings: Does God have any organs? Why does the Bible sometimes describe God as having human body parts?
• Main Topic: We react to the news of Beth Moore leaving Lifeway and saying she is no longer Southern Baptist. Does she have a point? Is there a problem with how Southern Baptists have treated woman? We discuss these questions and more!
• https://religionnews.com/2021/03/09/bible-teacher-beth-moore-ends-partnership-with-lifeway-i-am-no-longer-a-southern-baptist/

Steve gives KB her birthday present (2 weeks late), and they discuss, with guest Lisa Carr, Beth Moore's decision to leave the Southern Baptist Church. Find a link to all our episodes at www.grittyhope.com. Contact us at grittyhope@gmail.com.

In this episode, Josh, Lindsay, and Meagan reflect on the past year since the Coronavirus lockdown and Beth Moore’s announcement of her departure from Lifeway and the SBC. Lindsay gives a rundown of this week’s ERLC content including Andrew Bertodatti with "3 Ways Church Membership Challenges our Individualism," the Policy Staff with "Explainer: The Supreme Court sides with former student on religious free speech," ERLC Staff with "Explainer: Removal of EEOC General Counsel Creates Concern for Religious Liberty Protections," and Catherine Parks with "How vaccines protect the vulnerable." Also in this episode, the hosts are joined by Dr. Scott James for a conversation about life and ministry. 

About Dr. James

Scott James serves as an Elder at The Church at Brook Hills. He and his wife, Jaime, have four children and live in Birmingham, Alabama, where he works as a pediatric physician. He is the author of The Expected One: Anticipating All of Jesus in the Advent, Mission Accomplished: A Two-Week Family Easter Devotional, The Littlest Watchman, Where Is Wisdom?, and his latest book God Cares for Me: Helping Children Trust God When They're Sick. You can connect with him on Twitter: @scott_h_james

ERLC Content

• Andrew Bertodatti with 3 Ways Church Membership Challenges our Individualism
• Policy Staff with Explainer: The Supreme Court sides with former student on religious free speech
• ERLC Staff with Explainer: Removal of EEOC General Counsel Creates Concern for Religious Liberty Protections
• Catherine Parks with How vaccines protect the vulnerable

Culture

1. Coronavirus dashboard
2. The sports shutdown of 2020: One year later
3. Fauci says COVID death toll would have "shocked" him a year ago
4. Many vulnerable Americans have received the coronavirus vaccine
5. Bible teacher Beth Moore, splitting with Lifeway, says, ‘I am no longer a Southern Baptist’
6. Beth Moore announces departure from Lifeway, SBC

Lunchroom

• Lindsay: Murder Among the Mormons
• Josh: Deepfake
• Meagan: Daylight Savings Time

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• @ERLC
• @jbwester
• @meaganemily331
• @LindsNicolet

Sponsors

• Caring Well: Churches should be a refuge for those who have experienced abuse. The Caring Well Challenge is a free resource from the ERLC in which we take you through a year long journey with 8 different steps to help make your church safe for survivors and safe from abuse.
• Stand for Life: At the ERLC, we stand for life. Our work to save preborn babies and care for the vulnerable is vital to our work. Believing that abortion can end in our lifetime, will you join us as we STAND FOR LIFE?

In this episode, Josh, Brent, Julie, and Meagan discuss GameStop, how the economy is similar to that of WWII, social channels cracking down on political ads, the status of former President Trump’s possible impeachment, the CDC’s recommendation for schools, Israel leading in vaccinations, Lifeway selling their building, and Super Bowl commercials. Julie also gives a rundown of some of the ERLC’s most popular content from Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram this week.

About Julie

Julie Masson serves as Director of External Engagement for the ERLC. She is responsible for strategic planning, development and implementation of the ERLC brand strategy across all ERLC departments and provides leadership and oversight for the ERLC marketing team as well as coordinating external affairs and partnership deliverables. Julie and her husband Jesse spent two years in Spain with the International Mission Board before moving to Kansas City where they live with their three children. She is a graduate of Iowa State University. You can connect with her on Twitter: @juliermasson

ERLC Content

• ERLC’s public policy priorities for 2021
• Evangelicals for Life 2021
• Gender, sexuality, and the Biden Administration

Culture

1. Worst economy since WWII
2. GamesStop goes Gangbusters
3. Big Tech bolts politics
4. Google pausing all political ads following Capitol siege
5. All the platforms that have banned or restricted Trump so far
6. Early Procedural Test Shows Where Senate GOP May Stand On Convicting Trump
7. CDC makes case for schools reopening
8. January deadliest month for Covid
9. Israel leads in global race to vaccinate
10. Lifeway building under contract, transitions to new work environment
11. IMB partners with 140 international Baptist conventions in fulfilling Great Commission
12. Budweiser won't run a commercial during the Super Bowl for the first time in 37 years.

Lunchroom

• Julie: Bedtime History
• Josh: Reading while Black
• Brent: BBC: Working in coffee shops – For the pandemic: Terra Vibe
• Meagan: The Bible Recap

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• @ERLC
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• @LeatherwoodTN
• @meaganemily331

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• A Parent’s Guide to Teaching Your Children About Gender: by Jared Kennedy. This short book walks through six conversation topics designed to help you apply the truth and hope of the gospel to the complex issue of gender. 
• Stand for Life: At the ERLC, we stand for life. Our work to save preborn babies and care for the vulnerable is vital to our work. Believing that abortion can end in our lifetime, will you join us as we STAND FOR LIFE?

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• Famous at Home & its beginning
• How broken relationships affect all sides
• Pursuing careers in marriage & family to help heal divides
• Struggling with roles and purpose in motherhood
• Get married, stay married, and enjoy your marriage and family linked to emotional safety
• You cannot thrive outside the home if you are not thriving inside the home
• Women with hidden resentment. 
• Championing sides of both spouses- both husband and wife. Team Straub.
• The importance of rest and Sabbath.
• Chasing idols to fill the void in which we desire connection at our core.
• Balance vs. Order
• What to bring into your marriage and what to leave behind.
• Bringing humanness back into the forefront.
• Fighting for our marriages 

Josh and Christi Straub are speakers, authors, and marriage and leadership coaches. Together, they lead  Famous at Home, an organization equipping families and leaders to be famous at home, so they can thrive on their stage. Both Fellows of the Townsend Institute for Leadership and Counseling, together they host the weekly In This Together podcast and just launched their first children’s book What Am I Feeling? Josh and Christi have two fun and feisty kids, Landon and Kennedy.

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In this warm and wise interview episode with Dr. Philip Nation we examine what it means to make disciples. You are going to love the wit and wisdom that takes shape in the next 45 minutes.

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About Dr. Philip Nation.

"It takes solid volunteer leaders: My volunteer leader Matthew shaped how personal the faith journey could be for me."

• “It’s difficult, that’s the youth ministry” 
• “I need you to fix my kid. That is one of those memories that hang with you. That a parent would just want you to step into the boundaries of their child’s life” 
• “There are parents that feel like they are drowning. Parents feel this way because they have never been discipled themselves.
• The Discipleship Deficit 
• “We are living in a generation where parents are having to parent and learn the technology.” 
• We are not living in a culture crisis we are living in a church crisis. 
• Disciple making is a spiritual discipline. 
• What are you trying to create? An Evangelical version of an amish community. .. Pepperoni and Purity.
• Being a fully formed follower of Jesus is possible as a teenager.  
• “Youth ministry is more than meeting the immediate discomfort with immediate correction."
• “We are just trying to play the substitution game to stitch together a “fix quilt” 
• “Youth ministry is more than solving this week’s problem.” 
• What is the good medicine for youth in your youth ministry? 
• Be willing to an honest evaluation of where you are right now. 
• "Some of you in ministry are alone because you are all alone, you never invited anyone else: coach, mentor, guide in to lead you. They need to know that you need them.”

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• 3 Bad Models of Discipleship 
• 1. Plastic Christianity: Pain-Free
• 2. Knowledge Transfer Ministry: Making jeopardy contestants about Jesus-following. the Bible is open, but the questions are closed. They are answering the questions of a previous generation. 
• 3. Behavior Modification: Keep time of doing the same good things. 
• How are we going to deepen the good news of the Gospel in the lives of young people?
• Students need to live with an eternal perspective. 
• “You can’t operate by metrics that your seniors leadership rejects.”
• You might be thinking in a different  way than you senior pastor, which is okay,  youth ministers are typically rogues and rebels, but you need to talk about the formation of those metrics and what you are working together to measure. 
• The metrics that you value. The system of your ministry is perfectly designed to get the results you are getting. If you want different results you are going to have to retrofit the system. 
• How are we building biblical hospitality into the lives of students? 
• Are you training the adults who are volunteering and leading in your ministry to the ways and measures of success in your ministry? Are you inviting those leaders into your home? 
• How will you ignite the spiri

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In episode 178 Zac sits down with Daniel IM to talk about the importance of vision, strategy, and values for leading in a church and a youth ministry.

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Our Guest:  Learn more about Daniel IM

Daniel Sangi Im is the Director of Church Multiplication for NewChurches.com at LifeWay Christian Resources. He also serves as a Teaching Pastor at The Fellowship, a multisite church in Nashville.

Daniel is the the author of No Silver Bullets: Five Small Shifts that will Transform Your Ministry and Planting Missional Churches: Your Guide to Starting Churches that Multiply (2nd Ed).

He also co-hosts the New Churches Q&A Podcast, the 5 Leadership Questions Podcast, and a brand new podcast with his wife on marriage and parenting called the IMbetween Podcast.

Daniel has served and pastored in church plants and multisite churches ranging from 100 people to 50,000 people in Vancouver, Ottawa, Montreal, Korea, Edmonton, and Nashville. His experience and strength is in creating alignment and momentum within teams and churches by implementing strategies and systems to move the church towards multiplication. Which is why you are going to love today's episode! 

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Show Notes:

Let's Talk About Where Vision Fits In:
Vision
Strategy
Values

What is the difference between Vision and Mission (5:01) (way less than you think)

A Vision statement simply answers,  "Where are we going?"

Vision is probably not the place for the youth ministry to differentiate

6:26 "Vision is the contextualized version of the
Great Commandment and Great Commission"

Beulah Alliance Church
“Reach 1% of Edmondton”

A strategy is the stuff you do to get your vision done.

2 Strands of Strategy
Leadership Pipeline
Discipleship Pathway

8:10 The reason that every church does ministry

We do things differently because of our set of values.

“If everyone can agree with the value then it is not clear enough”

11:10 “The values of your church should be so clear that a newcomer should read them and be able to opt out”

13:30 Where does the Strategy get decided?
Everything the church does fits within the strategy (either knowingly or not)

Leadership Pipeline: equipping the saints for ministry
Discipleship Pathway: pointing them to Christ, maturing for faith

15:10 Can’t it be both?

16:24 "The shift to a growing larger church is the move to develop the leadership pipeline

"You can’t be a doer, you must become equippers"


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• Conviction 
• Culture 
• Constructs 

Conviction
In order to move from doers to equippers.
Ephesians 4 for Biblical conviction

Culture
Wh

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In episode 171 Zac and Ben Trueblood of Lifeway Students talk about ministry after student ministry.

With 2 new books of research and pastoral concern Ben presents some of the findings and hopes for youth pastors hoping to do right and better.

Need Prayer? Help? Support?

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Check out Ben's Books
Within Reach

A Different College Experience


Key Moments:
Original Dropout Study 2008
70% of active students drop out 
New Findings: Within Reach 2019
66% of active students drop out  
Defining Active Student Ministry: 2x or more a month  

• "Nothing that we have helped them understand that has created a pull for them to be connected in a local expression of believers to other followers of Christ. To me that is more scary that something trying to convince them that their faith isn’t real…"
• We need to create multiple opportunities to be connected to the church at large and the adults of the church and adult ministries of the church  
• “I didn’t feel connected to other people in my church”  
• "I had a need, a desire for connection that was unfulfilled”   
• Connection with people is the primary driver for people staying connected to the church through college.  
• The more we connect students to the rest of the church the more they begin to understand that the church needs me.  
• But in turn… Here’s why I need them.The church needs me, and I need them.  
• Student ministry needs to find ways to connect beyond student ministry itself.  
• Student ministries are doing a great  
• For the next in the now.   

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