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How to Lead When You're Not in Charge - Clay Scroggins
Scott and PJ talk with Dr. Clay Scroggins about leveraging influence in your current role to see change and even how to do it when you have a challenging situation. This transparent conversation with Clay Scroggins is a must for second-chair leaders and pastors alike! Clay Scroggins graduated as an industrial engineer from GA Tech and has spent the last 20 years in the local church and can play Babylon by David Gray on guitar. His doctoral work was on "creating online environments for personal growth," and he speaks, writes, and creates resources full-time for emerging leaders. In this broadcast: • 1/3 of workers feel "engaged and inspired" by their leaders • 3 out of 4 pastors since 2020 report severe levels of stress • 40% have an intense conflict with a church member at least once a month • Scott talks with Clay about how do leaders lead when they don't have authority • Do you have to be the boss in order to lead? • Scott discusses there's something deeper and more profound than just being the leader • When do we challenge authority and still maintain relationships? • If you're not challenging, you're not leading whether you're in charge or not • How Shane, an operator of a Chick-fil-A in Athens starting to make milkshakes. He challenged his bosses and was strategic on how he promoted it. • Clay reminds us you can always lead yourself and have the ability to govern yourself • We have to choose positivity, the attitude you bring is more important than your ideas, education, etc. • Think critically but have to be careful to not be critical • Reject passivity to be in charge • Clay shares one of the reasons he chose to resign • Unpack "Great leaders lead like they are not in charge even though they are in charge" for our Bivocational and pastors engaged with our broadcast today. • You need to learn how to lead through influence, relationships, etc. • PJ shares about how the phrase "because I said so" in a staff meeting didn't work out so well • Clay: everyone wants respect- a better strategy of wanting respect is to be a respectable person • One of his great failures is thinking he understands the whole situation. "Maybe someone just stepped in some poop!" • Clay talks about his new book and how we need to develop into the kind of leaders that the future is demanding
Called to Ministry & Keys to Finish Well - Bryant Wright & Chris Trent
Dr. Wright is an author, national speaker and one of the most respected leaders in Southern Baptist life. He served as senior pastor of Johnson Ferry Baptist Church in Marietta, Georgia for 38 years. He served as president of the Southern Baptist Convention from June 2010 to June 2012. Bryant founded Right From the Heart Ministries, radio program reaching thousands of people world-wide. And currently serves as President of Send Relief for IMB. Chris Trent, served as student pastor in churches in Texas and Georgia, most recently as student pastor at Johnson Ferry Baptist Church for the past 14 years. Chris is an author, Consider This: A Youth Minister’s Guide to Longevity. Chris is the NEXT GEN Catalyst on our Church Strengthening team, an illusionist and master of all things Disney. Bryant shares • the keys to success over his four decades of ministry and rhythms that can help all leaders • wisdom from his new book Succession for all leaders looking to retire or leave a ministry well • the importance of a sabbath and guidance on asking your church for a sabbatical • gives specific details on guardrails he had/has in his life to help him stay morally faithful • why it is imperative for a pastor to build relationships with unbelievers in the community • why we are not seeing more young people surrender to ministry and what leaders can do Chris shares • keys to success from the second chair leader • there was never any confusion about what mattered most at Johnson Ferry Baptist Church • mission clarity precedes mission success • new initiative “called to ministry” initiative at the Georgia Baptist Mission Board in the Next Gen ministry to raise awareness and call out the called • what he hopes to know for when his ministry is completed Scott shares • people don’t walk in straight lines unless they are focused on a target. If a person is dropped off in the desert and they have to walk their way out, they will almost certainly walk in circles (leg length discrepancy). • people remember a little of what you say and a lot of how you make them feel • challenges leaders to consider: when the tide rises, all the boats in the bay rise with it, so lead well and don’t give up