Practical Church Revitalization Podcast

On this week's episode Don and Natalie talk about updates and encouragement for pastors and pastors wives. Links for what was discussed.Video for Legacy ChurchNatalie's Blog Don's Blog

Don gives us updates on the podcast and future of the team. Also discusses replacing pews with chairs.

Don talks about the recent plagiarism scandal in the SBC.

Don talks about recent events and why he believes that we are headed into a new reformation in the Church.

Don has Dr. David Jackson, Northeast Replanting Strategist for the North American Missions Board, John Brownlee, Executive Director for the Massachusetts Baptist Association, and Jim Fontaine, pastor of Friendship Baptist Church in Brimfield, MA to discuss Pastors Dinner Event.

From the boys travel to the Replant Summit 2021 in Kansas City, MO Jimbo Stewart, Pastor of Redemption Church, Jacksonville, FL and NAMB Replant Specialist discusses the 13 characteristics of replanters.

Pastors Need Pastors Preaching into Their LivesDon discusses some observations he has seen and heard over the last several months and years and gives us reason if your area does not have a monthly meeting of this type, you need one. In those months Don briefly discusses how he has heard form veteran Pastors and even younger ones looking to connect with guys in their towns and close by for fellowship and to be fed the scriptures as they sorely need it. IRON SHARPENS IRON: Theological and Planting/Replanting Conferences are good to get information and ideas, but a Pastor can only speak to a Pastor in ways that hit home and that they understand. Its like how veterans understand each other or how if you played a sport, you have war stories to share.IT’S PURE NETWORKING ON A LOCAL LEVEL: Pastors love to connect, but when we have local conferences the region is usually larger than just 15 minutes away from you and does not allow for guys in similar ministry barriers to meet.TAKING THE REIGNS: If your area does not

1. Perspective2. Helping Church Deal3. Emotions4. Importance of Raising up Leaders5. Are we Wrapped up in People?6. Depending on size, the loss can be felt more or lessLeave under good circumstances not bad.

Don checks in with an idea for Bi-vocational Pastors listening to our podcast.

Easter service at Legacy Church

Erik Maloy discusses Palm Sunday for a community

Thoughts from tinted windows

In church revitalization we’re told that keeping all the old things is not in the best interest of the church. This is true if your facility looks like it got stuck in a time warp and into 1970. Statistics show that people have an innate sense of new and old and stay away from what the perceive as old. This is why many churches should regularly look around and see if updating their facility is in order. A fresh coat of paint can change things, it transforms areas with out expensive remodels and other costly expenses. However, that is not the point of this article. Let us discuss dusting off a time worn tradition as we begin to come out of our COVID comas, let’s discuss homecoming. Now we do have Back to Church Sunday in September, but as many of our states are opening things wide open again and churches are now looking at having in person services, many for the first time in a year, let us discuss why a homecoming is a good idea.First, it is a time to welcome back the church family. In many of the old-time ho

Today we interview another of the SBC President nominees, Ed Litton, pastor of Redemption Church in Mobile, AL.

In the changing landscape of the pastor's wife, churches have begun to offer the pastor's wife a stipend for the work she does. Yes, the pastors wife comes along with the pastor, but it is the pastor who is hired not his wife. Usually they take on roles within the church. Don and Natalie examine this and ask if being a pastor's wife is a calling.

Don flies solo before a big week of interviews and lays out thoughts on the Ravi Zacharias and John MacArthur stories and then gives us feel good story that he saw bring a grizzled US Marine to tears.

Don and his wife Natalie discuss Premarital Counseling and why they see it as important to churches in light of many pastors not doing or seeing the importance of an intense counseling period before or even during a marriage. Open talk: Church lifeWhy we are discussing this1. Highest rate of divorce is now in Christian homesa. Doesn’t look well to the worldb. Christians give into worldly view2. Pastors focused less on marriage counselinga. Look to more professionalsb. CEO style has killed the visionc. Most think discussing bills, money, jobs is all that needs to be done3. Simple cure or fixesa. Pastors meet with couples b. Dinners with couplesc. Advise what works in your marriagei. Keep dating each other

Erik and Don interview with Randy Adams, executive director of the Northwest Baptist Convention (NWBC), and nominee for president of the Southern Baptist Convention, top discuss his vision for the SBC as well as ask some questions on their hearts and minds. See Randy's site for his announcement: https://randyadams.org/2020/01/14/my-commitment-to-southern-baptists/