By unSeminary: Welcome to this week’s unSeminary podcast. Today we’re talking with Pete Briscoe, who served as the senior pastor for nearly three decades at Bent Tree Bible Fellowship in Carrollton, Texas, and now consults with and coaches pastors.

He is with us today to talk about growing communication skills to improve preaching as well as how we can find deeper fulfillment in our work and lives.

Coaching church leaders. // While at Bent Tree Bible Fellowship, Pete recognized that he would cycle through ups and downs where he would do really well when they were in the middle of building something new, but then would become very restless and bored with normal day-to-day ministry. This internal struggle was something that Pete largely battled alone, feeling like many people couldn’t understand or weren’t safe to share with. As the highs became higher and the lows lower, Pete made a decision to step down from his position to get help. He asked himself, “Can I do this role and be a healthy person at the same time?” and ultimately decided it was time for a change. After he stepped down from the senior pastor position, Pete and his wife decided to sell their house, purchase an RV and head to the mountains. They now drive around the country, going to different cities and working to coach and consult with church and business leaders.Success vs fulfillment. // Pete takes a look at self-care and communications when coaching church leaders. One of the things Pete discovered on his own journey is that there is a difference between the engineering of success and the art of fulfillment. The success side of leading can be more of a science – we do certain things and the Lord blesses it and it tends to work, but we may still be left with a lack of personal fulfillment inside. Fulfillment is more of an art which is individual and personalized. There are spiritual, relational, and generosity factors involved.Dream about the future. // When it comes to self-care, Pete spends a day with church leaders in order to walk through what their life looks like now, and what’s broken and stuck. He asks questions about what’s working and what needs to change, go, or stay. From there Pete helps his clients spend a lot of time dreaming about the future and what they want their life to look like. Many pastors tend to think that they will spend their whole lives in church ministry and don’t think about what comes next. So Pete helps people sort through these conflicts and feelings and plan for the future. Then Pete helps them put together a life plan to get there.Uncovering who we are. // Who pastors really are can get lost in the persona we create. It is appropriate not to share everything with the whole body of believers, but that also creates a slightly different person than who we really are. In time, who we really are gets lost in that bigger public persona. In Pete’s conversations with pastors, he draws out this knowledge, asking: What’s real about you? What’s not? What’s going on behind the scenes that no one else knows about?Improve communication. // Pete also helps pastors apply communication theory and pragmatic communication to preaching. As people become better communicators, it helps them to become better preachers too. Pete is also launching a course to help pastors grow their preaching skills. A two-hour session helps leaders learn how to craft a gripping message. Part of the course includes working on a sermon and then recording its execution so that Pete can help pastors tighten up their presentation and delivery.

You can learn more about Pete Briscoe and the services he offers at www.petebriscoe.com. Plus, download his ten tips for preaching to a camera here.

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by Carey Nieuwhof: You might be asking yourself as a church leader, why does everyone seem so angry with me right now?

You’re not alone.

As pastor appreciation month fades into the rearview mirror, despite getting a few chocolates and a handful of thank you cards (or nothing…that’s happened before too), many church leaders I talk to are feeling more unappreciated, misunderstood and more criticized than ever.

Criticism stings, and in a prolonged crisis like this one, just when you feel like you need more encouragement than usual, it feels like you’re getting all-time-high levels of static.

What’s going on?

Just so we don’t all go to a false pity-party, let me say sometimes it’s definitely you.  I’ve made some significant leadership blunders myself. Maybe you did something to anger your team, upset your church, led change unwisely or made some other decisions that really messed things up.

If that’s the case, the best thing to do is stop reading this post, talk to the people around you, get some help and make it right.

But if that’s not the case—and I’m guessing for most of you that’s not the case right now—what do you do when you’re giving your all, working hard day and night and you really love the people you serve, and you still get a load of rage dumped on your doorstep?

What do you do when you throw your heart into it and  you still get an ALL CAPS EMAIL,  an anonymous note and people threatening to leave the church? Sure, you’re not perfect, but come on….really?

What’s up with that?

I’ve gone through some undeserved seasons of opposition and criticism before as well.

Here are three factors that might help explain what’s happening, as well as three things that can help you push through through the months ahead. We all need all the help we can get right now in the midst of this crisis.

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3 Factors That Create Undeserved Criticism

Undeserved criticism is the kind of criticism that either comes out of nowhere, or that happens when people treat a 2 out of 10 level problem as though it were a 12 out of 10 issue. You know what I mean.

All of which leaves you feeling perplexed, hurt, agitated, isolated, defeated and angry at the same time.

You feel like you have nowhere to go and over time, it diminishes your motivation to serve.

Why does that happen? Why do you get all kinds of static when there’s really nothing wrong?

Here are 3 reasons that happens all the time in the church and in many organizations.

1. 95% of all problems in the church have nothing to do with the church

In the early days of ministry, I began to see a pattern.

The complaints people levied against the church often didn’t have anything to do with the church.

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Yes, they were upset about the music or the direction, but if you drilled a little deeper, you soon discovered that there were other factors at work.

They were struggling at work, or their marriage was under a lot of stress, or they were battling an addiction or really down on themselves.

Add the global crisis into the mix, and people are struggling deeply with fear, medical, financial, political, emotional and relational stress unlike anything most have every coped with.

No wonder they’re agitated. Under that kind of stress, people get agitated and the anger has to come out somewhere. The church is an easy target.

In the same road rage is rarely about what happens on the highway, church rage is often not about what’s happening in the church. The guy who barely cut you off just bore the full weight of your unresolved issues in that moment.

Which leads us back to the key point: 95% of all problems in the church have nothing to do with the church.

That doesn’t make the anger go away, but it can help you empathize more and take it less personally.

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2. Distance and division have made people ruder and bolder 

The pandemic has separated us from each other in so many ways.

As more of our life moves online, and as personal contact becomes less frequent you and I get bolder and ruder.

We live in an angry age, and the current crises have only made that worse. Far worse. (I outlined 5 reasons anger is the new epidemic here.)

Here’s what happens when we get separated from each other, in normal conditions but especially in the midst of crisis: distance between people desensitizes people.

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Generals have known this for millennia. That’s why soldiers wear uniforms and wear war paint. It not only identifies you, but it disguises your humanity. It’s easier to shoot you when I can’t see you.

Before you judge soldiers, think of how you sometimes behave in your car. As already indicated, chances are, you’re naturally more aggressive there too—occasionally cutting people off, tailgating, honking your horn, and not caring nearly as much as you normally do.

Why do you behave differently in a car than when you’re not in a car?

Because you’re in a 3000-pound armored vehicle. You don’t see the guy bothering you as a person. You see him as a problem. So you get way more aggressive.

Even in the supermarket, you’re ruder when you have a shopping cart in your hands than when you don’t.

The same dynamic is at work in social media and our life online and any time we’re not eyeball to eyeball in the room with another human.

When you’re online and you can’t see the whites of someone’s eyes, it’s just easier to shoot.

Bottom line? It’s never been easier to be known and hide simultaneously than it is online. And it’s never been easier to take pot shots at leaders than it is now.

So when you get those angry emails, letters, voicemails and snappy comments, just know it’s often 10x more animated than it would be in-person.

Bottom line? It’s never been easier to be known and hide simultaneously than it is online. And it’s never been easier to take pot shots at leaders than it is now.

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3. You’re a little agitated too

Ever notice that 0n some days little things bother you, while on other days nothing seems to bother you (even criticism)?

What’s the difference?

The difference is you—some days little things get to you and little things become big things. Other days, everything rolls off your back.

When you’re stressed everything tends to bother you, including things that shouldn’t.

Guess what? You’re leading in the midst of an insanely complicated crisis. You’re stressed.

So something that wouldn’t get under your skin in normal times probably is getting under your skin today.

Something you would handle maturely and calmly has now got you cracking on the inside.

That’s natural. It’s a really tough season.

The best strategy when I know I’m not in a good place is to take a break. You never respond well when you’re angry or irritated. Neither do I.

Pray, get some sleep, talk to a friend and come back at it with a fresh mind and heart.

The situation won’t have changed, but you’ll be better. And when you’re better, things tend to get better.

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3 Keys To Getting Healthier

So what do you do?

In terms of replying to the people who are mad at you, these 5 pro tips on how to handle criticism will help. Every time I use them, the situation gets better. Every time I ignore them, I make things worse, not better. In and of itself, Pro Tip #4—Reply Relationally—is a very effective tension diffuser and conflict de-escalator.

So start there.

But it’s deeper than that.

You probably still have months—or even a year—of this crazy upside down season ahead of you in leadership. I want you to make it through the long haul.

So here are three longer term strategies that can help you lead healthier and stay healthier.

1. Grieve your losses

This has been a season of incredible loss. In normal times, people in ministry suffer loss every day.

Think about it.

Every time someone leaves your ministry or steps back from your team, it’s a loss.  Whenever you give something only to find ingratitude, it’s a loss.  Every time someone tells you’re great but you should really see the other guy who’s awesome, it’s a loss.

Add in death, illness and strained or lost relationships and, well, you get the picture.

Then add all the complexity, shock and insanity that 2020 has been into the mix and it’s just so much loss.

A mentor of mine once told me that in his view so many pastors quit ministry or lose their effectiveness not because any one incident made them snap or quit – but rather because the loss that provoked their exit is tied to dozens or hundreds of ungrieved losses along the way.

They might not even understand why they’re stepping back, shutting down or resigning.  All they know is they just can’t take it anymore. (My mentor, Terry Wardle, explains that theory here.)

When I first heard of this theory, I had so much ungrieved loss it took my about a month of tears to move through it.

Since then, one of the practices I’ve adopted is to grieve my losses as they happen.

I take time daily and weekly to review what’s bothering me and simply pray about it. Sometimes I talk to others about it.

I try to let myself stop and feel what I’ve experienced.  And when I feel it, something surprising happens – the negative feeling pretty much disappears.

If I do it promptly when a loss occurs, I can even respond to a four out of ten email or remark with a two out of ten reply – not a twelve.  I can actually offer grace.

If you want to stay healthy, grieve your losses. You’ve had a lot of loss.

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2. Get Around Some Life-Giving People

So much of ministry and leadership involves giving. And because ministry is giving, it can be draining.

I frequently ask ministry leaders, “When was the last time you went out for dinner with a couple and laughed so hard you cried? You know, a lost-track-of-time-completely kind of dinner?”

The blank looks and the looks of shock and disappointment on leaders’ faces tells the story.

We don’t do this nearly enough.

Your leadership is like a bank account. You can only give so much without becoming overdrawn. Be overdrawn long enough and you go bankrupt.

Go find some friends who energize you. Then, hang out.

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3. Embrace a sustainable pace…before it’s too late

This crisis has gone on way longer than anyone either wanted it to or than most (including me) thought it would.

Most leaders are dead tired.  And a lot of leaders are still holding out for some time off for their sanity and for the way to make it through.  Time off is wonderful.

But time off can’t save you if the problem is how you spend your time on.

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And the problem with most leaders is not how we spend our time off. It’s how we spend our time on.

Moving forward, definitely take some time off but focus even more intensely on creating a sustainable rhythm for every day.

The mantra I’ve lived by for the last decade plus is, live in a way today that will help you thrive tomorrow.  Do that, and you’ll lead through this crisis so much more effectively.

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Living in a way today that will help me thrive tomorrow will help me figure out everything from how much sleep I need, how many meetings to take, how many decisions I can reasonably make, and how to replenish myself daily so I can lead at home and at work.

This might take constant adjustment on your part, but it’s worth it.

More time off isn’t the solution for an unsustainable pace. A sustainable pace is the solution for an unsustainable pace.

More time off isn’t the solution for an unsustainable pace. A sustainable pace is the solution for an unsustainable pace.

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What Do You See?

Any other reasons you see for the level of criticism leaders are facing right now?

And what do you do to stay engaged, healthy and encouraged?

We need to make it through this prolonged crisis together.

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Thanks for listening to this week’s unSeminary podcast. This week we have Judy West chatting with us. She is the Pastor of Leadership Development at The Crossing in St. Louis.

The Crossing has four locations in St. Louis and can also be experienced online. Judy is with us today to talk about the class the church created to help followers of Christ become more emotionally healthy as part of their leadership development.

Solve conflicts with Jesus. // A church is filled with broken people and we as our lives bump against one another, friction occurs. Judy and the staff at The Crossing wanted to figure out how to teach people to bump with each other well. Part of this exploration meant asking questions such as, how do you solve conflicts the way Jesus teaches? How do you set appropriate boundaries?Body Life, a 5 week class. // In response, the team developed a five week class called Body Life. The basic premise of the class is based on a prayer by Jesus in John 17 in which He asks that the people He leaves behind are one, just as He is one with God.How to focus and forgive. // In week 1, the focus is on painting that picture of oneness as seen in John 17. The second week is teaching how to be one even though everyone is different from each other. Week 2 also touches on spiritual gifts. We can be one but we are all different, and so week 3 teaches how to set boundaries. Week 4 teaches what to do when bumps with each other occur. This week includes conflict night, in which the participants role play resolving conflict with each other. And then week 5 is focused on how to forgive one another when these bumps occur. Teach how to deal with conflict. // The class teaches everyone that you don’t have to be afraid of conflict. After the teaching, the people then talk with everyone about what happened inside, were they nervous or scared, and why. They talk about family origins while growing up and how conflict was dealt with. The class then goes on teaching how to deal with conflict through the steps of Matthew 18. First discuss the problem in private and what the issue is before approaching the solution.Skills and words in confrontation. // People often have trouble discussing problems with others. The class provides participants with words and sentences to use in confrontations. Participants learn to ask permission to question issues and to push back on the other person, clarifying the things that have been said. Hungry, Angry, Lonely, and Tired. // In approaching the confrontation, stick to the teaching of HALT. Don’t approach someone to question them if you are Hungry, Angry, Lonely, or Tired. Take care of those issues first, then walk into the Matthew 18 way of having a conversation in a humble way.

You can learn more about The Crossing at their church thecrossing.church and grab Lead Pastor Greg Holder’s book, The Genius of One: God’s Answer for Our Fractured World right here. Judy also helps oversee an executive pastor group for women with the Women Executive Pastors at wxpastors.com.

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by Shawn Lovejoy: I have lots of scars.

I have torn both ACL’s, the major ligament in each knee; I have a scar on top of my head from the time I had to get ten stitches because a PAIR of horseshoes fell on my head (long story, but it explains a lot, doesn’t it?);  and tons of other miscellaneous other scars from the perils of footballs, motorcycles, and other dangerous hobbies in my past.

Honestly, however, those aren’t the toughest scars from which I have needed to heal. The scars that have been the toughest to heal in my life have been my LEADERSHIP SCARS.  

Leadership Scars Can Form From Things Like:

Mistakes We Have Made

Things We Wish We Would Have Handled Differently

Decisions We Didn’t Make Soon Enough

Tough Calls Gone Bad

People Who Left

Staff Betrayals

Staff Coux’s

Critics, Criticism, & and Haters

These are just a few of my Leadership scars from which I have healed and of which I am still healing from!

What are your Leadership Scars?

The bigger question is: What are you doing to heal from those scars? 

Too many leaders we coach are stuck at the place of the open wound that never healed.

If you don’t rehabilitate from a physical wound properly, something called SCAR TISSUE forms that makes the scar rough, bumpy, and even calloused over time. Don’t allow that to be your story when it comes to LEADERSHIP SCARS. Reach out and get some help. Talk to a counselor. Seek out a coach. Find someone who believes that your future can be better than your past. Seek out someone that will believe in you. Get better. Seek healing from your Leadership Scars. Start massaging that scar tissue until it’s gone.

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by Carey Nieuwhof: What do you do if your church is dead…stuck…stagnant, and simply not growing? And…once it starts growing, how do you get ready to scale the growth barriers most leaders never figure out how to scale?

Jeremy MacDonald interviews Carey Nieuwhof about the backstory of two decades plus in church leadership, from starting with three small dying mainline churches to the over 1500 people who attend today. Carey talks about how to jumpstart the mission of a dead church, how to recruit leaders, how to get people to stop expecting the pastor to do everything, and how to empower a team to lead the church past 1000 attenders.

Welcome to Episode 266 of the podcast. Listen and access the show notes below or search for the Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts and listen for free.

Get Your Church Growing (Again…or for the First Time)

Did you know that 9 out of 10 churches don’t grow? Maybe you’re leading one of them.

You likely didn’t get into ministry to watch your church plateau or, worse yet, decline. You wanted God to use you to reach new people with the good news. You wanted to see your church grow. You wanted to make an impact on your community that would outlast you.

But the odds are, it’s not happening. And the thing is, you’re not alone. We live in an era where 94% of churches aren’t growing or aren’t growing as fast as their communities. Barely 1 out of 20 churches are effectively reaching their neighbors for Jesus. Despite how desperately our communities need to hear and engage with the good news about Jesus, many churches are lost when it comes to reaching a postmodern culture.

Introducing the Church Growth Masterclass. As discussed on today’s podcast, the Masterclass is designed to help you jump start a stuck church, or help your growing church reach even more people.

It’s everything I wish I knew about church growth when I got into ministry more than 20 years ago.

I can’t make a church grow. You can’t make a church grow. Only God can do that.

But I believe you can position your church to grow. You can knock down the barriers that keep you from growing. You can eliminate the things that keep your church from growing and implement some strategies that will help you reach far more people. That’s what I’d love to help you do in the Church Growth Masterclass.

In the Church Growth Masterclass I’ll show you:

The 10 reasons your church isn’t growing
Why even committed church-goers aren’t attending as often as before
How to tell if your church leaders are getting burned out
The five keys to your church better impacting millennials.
What to do when a church wants to grow … but not change
5 essentials for church growth
5 disruptive church trends to watch—and how to respond
How to increase church attendance by increasing engagement.

You can learn more and gain instant access to the course today.

But hurry, launch pricing is only available until May 23rd at midnight.

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3 Insights from Carey

1. If you want to break through growth barriers, you have to be able to let go

Most organization are currently hitting growth barriers. 94% of churches aren’t growing, 80% of Churches are 200 or smaller, and 96% of all for-profit businesses never break the million dollar sales mark. Often times, the cause of this is because the visionary leader can’t let go. If the visionary can’t delegate, you will hit growth barriers and get stuck.

Carey has had to learn to let go of different decisions to the leaders under him. This is a really hard thing for most visionary leaders to do. But, if you want your organization to grow past those growth barriers, you have to be willing to let go and delegate. People will not be able to do things as well as you can right away, but if you continue to invest, you will find that there are people who can do those things even better than you can.

2. If you want a healthy organization with healthy leaders, cultivate a healthy culture

If you don’t engage the toxic people in your organization, they will eventually leave. The same thing happens with trolls and haters online. If you ignore their toxic comments, they will eventually leave. By focusing on the helpful, positive people you are working to build a healthy community and culture within your organization. A healthy system will squeeze out toxic people. A toxic system will squeeze out healthy people.

One helpful way to know if someone is toxic or not is to look at their track record. Usually, if they are toxic at your church or organization, they have been toxic to 5 others also. Carey always filtered opposition through 2 questions:

1. Is there a biblical argument for what they are saying?

2. Is this the kind of person we can build the future of the church on?

If the opposition didn’t pass through these filters, it wasn’t worth listening to.

3. When it comes to next-gen ministries, to get great results you must make a great investment

Next-gen ministry is one of the most critical ministries in a church. When you need hundreds of volunteers to serve well, you need someone who can lead that many volunteers well. That’s a very high level of skill and leadership. You need to fund that leader and program really well if you want to see good results.

Another key to building a great student ministry is creating and executing a shared strategy with the leader of those ministries. To keep a shared strategy healthy, someone in Next-Gen ministries should be a direct report to the senior leader. When you keep that relationship strong and continue to invest in them, you will continue to see positive results.

Quotes from Episode 266

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Next Episode: Margaret Feinberg 

When she was in eigth grade, Margaret Feinberg’s teachers asked the class to write a story. While most students turned in four pages, Margaret turned in a 127 page book. Today, Margaret has sold over a million books and in this episode, we unpack how not being one of the cool kids shaped Margaret for the future, dissect the daily disciplines she uses to create content, why she spends 95% of her time as a writer marketing, and why never mixing business and pleasure has been so energizing for her.

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