5LQ Episode 257: Tony Evans –

In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Eric Geiger and Todd Adkins are joined by Dr. Tony Evans, author of Kingdom Disciples and Kingdom Man. During their conversation, they discuss why it is important for a leader to be a reader and how to lead your family around the table. BEST QUOTES “I try to read people who I think will grow me in the area of where I am ministering at the time.” “I read any and everything that I can get my hands on that is relevant to the audience to whom I am speaking because the Bible was not meant to just be an exegetical book to tell you what the author thought in Scripture, but from which you use what the author taught to the group that he was speaking to, to the relevant realities of the people whom you speak to.” “You begin with after you’ve read your Bible, you read your newspaper.” “We come from the Bible, to our people. But the people are coming from the world, to the Bible. We must respect their starting place as different than our starting place because that will affect how they hear what we have to say.” “When the Bible was written, it was not written as a systematic theology, it was written as a biblical theology.” “The job of the proclaimer is to keep the relevancy without compromising what has been written.” “It is my contention that the unifying theme of all the Bible is the glory of God through the advancement of His Kingdom.” “The Kingdom agenda is the visible demonstration of the comprehensive rule of God over every area of life. And those areas are divided into four categories: your individual life, your family life, your church life, and your community life.” “The table was never used for just eating, the table was used for leading.” “Be involved in the things that matter to your family, and not just ask your family to be involved in the things that matter to the leader.” RECOMMENDED RESOURCES Ministrygrid.com Between Two Worlds by John Stott Kingdom Man by Tony Evans Kingdom Disciples by Tony Evans