The job description of the modern pastor is nothing short of impossible. From managing ministries and budgets, to preaching and counseling every week, to leading a staff and caring for your family, it’s all a recipe for disaster. Join Dr. Trent Stewart and Greg Gibson each week for The Busy Pastor Podcast, where they encourage and equip you to lead like never before. Yes, pastors should be busy, but we want you to be busy with the right things.
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Episode 37 | The Power of The Big Day Part Two | Busy Pastor Podcast
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In episode 38, Pastor Trent and Pastor Greg continue their discussion about the Power of Big Days.Af The Busy Pastor
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Episode 37 | The Power of the Big Day - Part One | Busy Pastor Podcast
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In episode 37, Pastor Trent and Pastor Greg talk about the Power of Big Days.Af The Busy Pastor
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Episode 36 | Leading Next-Gen Small Groups | Busy Pastor Podcast
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Episode 35 | Coaching Ministry | Busy Pastor Podcast
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In episode 35, Pastor Trent and Pastor Greg talk about our coaching ministry, joined by the Pastor of Connections, Taylor Knight.Af The Busy Pastor
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Episode 34 | Small Group Ministry Part 3 | Busy Pastor Podcast
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In episode 34, Pastor Trent and Pastor Greg talk about being busy training and developing small group leaders, joined by the Pastor of Development, Heath Bennett.Af The Busy Pastor
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Episode 33 | Small Group Ministry Part 2 | Busy Pastor Podcast
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In episode 33, Pastor Trent and Pastor Greg continue their discussion on small groups at Foothills Church with the Pastor of Development, Heath Bennett.Af The Busy Pastor
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Episode 32 | Small Group Ministry | Busy Pastor Podcast
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In episode 32, Pastor Trent and Pastor Greg discuss small group ministry.Af The Busy Pastor
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Episode 31 | Multi-Site - Part 2 | Busy Pastor Podcast
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In episode 31, Pastor Trent and Pastor Greg continue their conversation about multi-sites.Af The Busy Pastor
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Episode 30 | Multi - Site | Busy Pastor Podcast
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In episode 30, Pastor Trent and Pastor Greg talk about planning and launching multi-sites.Af The Busy Pastor
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Episode 29 | Creating a Building Campaign - Part 2 | Busy Pastor Podcast
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In episode 29, Pastor Trent and Pastor Greg continue their talk about leading building campaigns.Af The Busy Pastor
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Episode 28 | Creating a Building Campaign | Busy Pastor Podcast
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In episode 28, Pastor Trent and Pastor Greg as they talk about leading a building campaign. At The Busy Pastor, we want you to be busy with the right things.Af The Busy Pastor
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Episode 27 | Leading Staff - Part 4 | Busy Pastor Podcast
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In episode 27, Pastor Trent and Pastor Greg continue their conversation on leading staff and creating staff values. At The Busy Pastor, we want you to be busy with leading your staff well and in the right way. We continue this conversation with PART 4 of Leading Staff.Af The Busy Pastor
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Episode 26 | Leading Staff - Part 3 | Busy Pastor Podcast
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In episode 26, Pastor Trent and Pastor Greg continue their conversation on leading staff and the importance of being busy in this lane as a pastor. At The Busy Pastor, we want you to be busy with leading your staff well and in the right way. We continue this conversation with PART 3 of Leading Staff.…
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Episode 25 | Leading Staff - Part 2 | Busy Pastor Podcast
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In episode 25, Pastor Trent and Pastor Greg continue their conversation on leading staff and the importance of being busy in this lane as a pastor. At The Busy Pastor, we want you to be busy with leading your staff well and in the right way. We continue this conversation with PART 2 of Leading Staff.…
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Episode 24 | Leading Staff | Busy Pastor Podcast
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In episode 24, Pastor Trent and Pastor Greg start a new conversation on leading staff and the importance of being busy in this lane as a pastor. At The Busy Pastor, we want you to be busy with leading your staff well and in the right way.Af The Busy Pastor
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Episode 23 | Leading Volunteers - Part 2 | Busy Pastor Podcast
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In episode 23, Pastor Trent and Pastor Greg continue a discussion on leading volunteers. In episode 22, we looked at recruiting and onboarding. In this episode, we look at training and equipping, and more.Af The Busy Pastor
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Episode 22 | Leading Volunteers - Part 1 | Busy Pastor Podcast
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Episode 21 | What is a Leadership Pipeline? - Part 2 | Busy Pastor Podcast
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Episode 20 | What is a Leadership Pipeline? - Part 1 | Busy Pastor Podcast
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In episode 20, Pastor Trent and Pastor Greg discuss being busy with leadership development. In this episode, we talk about Foothills Church's process for leadership development, specifically through what we call our "leadership pipeline."Af The Busy Pastor
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Episode 19 | Being Busy With Our Discipleship Strategy | Busy Pastor Podcast
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In episode 19, Pastor Trent and Pastor Greg talk about being busy with our Discipleship Strategy. This is unique to you, your gifts, your context, and your church. In this episode, Pastor Trent and Pastor Greg talk through the Discipleship Strategy at Foothills Church.Af The Busy Pastor
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Episode 18 | Being Busy In Our Strategies | Busy Pastor Podcast
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In episode 18, Pastor Greg and Pastor Trent talk about being busy with our strategies. It is important to have a strategic plan for your church and ministry that you can execute with concrete steps. In this episode, we talk about why it is important to have a plan for where you are going and how you are going to get there.…
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Episode 17 | Romance, Sex, and Marriage | Busy Pastor Podcast
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In episode 17, Pastor Greg and Pastor Trent talk about being busy with our sex life in marriage. Sex is a messy subject in the church. Even more, it's not mentioned much in the area of training and equipping pastors. However, sex is a gift in marriage. When your sex life with your spouse is healthy, your marriage is healthy. And when our marriages …
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Episode 16 | Being Busy With Our Finances | Busy Pastor Podcast
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In episode 16, Pastor Greg and Pastor Trent talk about being busy with our finances. When you are in ministry, the conversation on money can be messy, but it doesn't have to be. When you become good with money and teach your church to be good with money, then we are practicing stewardship how Jesus teaches us to do so.…
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Episode 15 | Being Busy in Our Parenting | Busy Pastor Podcast
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In episode 15, Greg and Trent talk through the uniqueness of parenting when you are in ministry. Many pastors have been pastor's kids, and they are raising pastor's kids. Pastor Trent is both a pastor's kid and a dad. In this episode, he shares some unique experiences and wisdom from being on both sides that is helpful for pastors to be busy in the…
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Episode 14 | Being Busy in Our Marriage | Busy Pastor Podcast
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In episode 14, Trent and Greg talk about the importance having, pursuing, and experiencing a healthy marriage. Combining ministry and marriage can sometimes be messy. This is all the more reason to be busy creating a healthy marriage. When our marriages are healthy, our churches are healthier.Af The Busy Pastor
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Episode 13 | Leading Yourself Physically | Busy Pastor Podcast
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In episode 13, Trent and Greg talk about stewarding our physical bodies well. When we lead ourselves well in this area, then we become the most effective and healthy leaders we can be for ourselves, our families, and our churches.Af The Busy Pastor
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Episode 12 | Leading Yourself Emotionally | Busy Pastor Podcast
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In this episode, Trent and Greg talk about the importance of leading yourself emotionally as a pastor. In so many ways, emotional health is an indicator of our spiritual maturity and spiritual baseline. When we are emotionally healthy as pastors, it will come out in how we love others, relate to others, and lead others.…
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Episode 11 | Leading Yourself Spiritually | Busy Pastor Podcast
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In this episode, Pastor Trent and Pastor Greg discuss the importance of being busy with our own spiritual growth. As pastors, we can hide behind our knowledge of the Bible, the busyness of our schedules, and our gift sets and personalities. This is a recipe for burnout. We need to always be busy about our own growth in order to also help others bec…
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Episode 10 | Defining Your Why | Busy Pastor Podcast
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In this episode, Pastor Trent and Pastor Greg discuss the importance of being busy defining your own personal WHY. When you define your WHY you begin to understand your calling, your DESIGN, and the assignments you can take our of your DESIGN to make disciples. In all things, we must start with WHY!
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Episode 9 | Defining the Wins in Your Ministry | Busy Pastor Podcast
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It's important to define the wins in your church or other people will define them for you. In other words, your wins are determined by the vision of your church in making disciples. This episode speaks to the importance of constantly defining your qualitative wins (not just the numbers), measuring your wins, and measuring the growth of your people.…
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Episode 8 | The Signature Responsibilities of a Pastor | The Busy Pastor Podcast
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In this episode, Pastor Trent and Pastor Greg discuss the importance of teaching your church their position. When we teach our church and help our church discover THEIR DESIGN, we begin to see people serve and lead in the right lane. This creates cultures of celebration, joy, and purpose in the work of the ministry.…
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Episode 7 | The Right Pastoral Leadership Lane | The Busy Pastor Podcast
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In the world of leadership, pastors must do the hard work of knowing their leadership lane. In this episode, we look at the 5 leadership lanes that the Apostle Paul gives to pastors in Ephesians 4:11-12 (known as APEST Leadership). This episode speaks to the need for pastors to be self-aware, know their strengths, be honest about their weaknesses, …
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Episode 6 | The Pastoral Job Description - Part 2 | The Busy Pastor Podcast
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The 1-sentence job description for every Christian is to make disciples. The 1-sentence job description for pastors it to equip Christians to make disciples. We are called to go from DOERS of the ministry to EQUIPPER of others for the ministry. The problem is that pastors are often in the wrong lane, and they do not have a good sense of how God has…
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Episode 5 | The Pastoral Job Description - Part 1 | The Busy Pastor Podcast
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After spending 4-weeks discussing why many pastors are unhealthy, we look at the actual job description of the pastor from Ephesians 4:11-12. The job description of the pastor is to equip the saints for the work of ministry, but the Bible never tells us how to actually do that. In this episode, we encourage pastors to begin the journey of self-awar…
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Episode 4 | Freedom in the Methods | The Busy Pastor Podcast
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Pastors often work in such a way where the methods are just as important as the message. The message never changes, and the mission to make disciples (Matthew 28:18-20) never changes. However, we must realize that there is freedom in the methods. Pastors who are busy with the right things are asking the question, "What are the best methods I can us…
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Episode 3 | The Ability to Say "Not Yet" | The Busy Pastor Podcast
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Pastors today are tired, burnt out, and stretched to their limits. Every single day there are opportunities to do good things, meet with people, start ministries, and more. Because of this, pastors are addicting to saying, "yes," and their calendars are slammed packed and at capacity. However, one of the best things that pastor's can say is, "not y…
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Episode 2 | Pastor Guilt | The Busy Pastor Podcast
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When pastors think they are super heroes, they try to do all of the work themselves. Inevitably this means they have created an impossible job description that they can't keep up with. Because of this, pastors live with an immense amount of guilt. When your identity is in the work of ministry, and not in Christ, then you will be unhealthy and full …
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Episode 1 | Changing the Pastoral Job Description | The Busy Pastor Podcast
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Pastors have impossible job descriptions and are expected to be super heroes. We think it's time to change the pastor's job description and get back to what the Bible says pastors should be doing. We are sick of pastors being unhealthy and quitting. We care about pastors and want them (and their families) to be healthy and happy. That's why we are …
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