The Productive Pastor

One of the topics I have been excited to share with you is a series of conversations with pastors of normal-sized churches about the adaptations and lessons they learned during the Covid-19 crisis and the ways it disrupted church.  Our first conversation is with Rev. Fernie Rivera of Mid City Church in Baton Rouge, La. Fernie is a good friend and shares an amazing story of a new church plant that not only thrived but found a different missional footing during the pandemic.    Work With Chad https://bit.ly/CoachingWithChad  Listen and Subscribe Productive Pastor on iTunes | https://bit.ly/ProductivePastor Productive Pastor on Spotify | https://spoti.fi/3oIT5gf Chad on YouTube | https://bit.ly/RevChadBrooksYouTube Productive Pastor Email List | https://bit.ly/PPemailList  

Policies instantly make me think of TPS reports.  But we don't have to approach policy as a negative part of leadership. Let me share with you three ways creating policies as systems can help you when the time comes for difficult decisions.   Grab the Season 1 Workbook as part of the Labor Day Sale.     Work With Chad https://bit.ly/CoachingWithChad  Listen and Subscribe Productive Pastor on iTunes | https://bit.ly/ProductivePastor Productive Pastor on Spotify | https://spoti.fi/3oIT5gf Chad on YouTube | https://bit.ly/RevChadBrooksYouTube Productive Pastor Email List | http://eepurl.com/hMfuGT  

We are back with the 2nd part in our 3 part series on making decisions. In this episode we are going to be talking about our Strategic Intentionality gives us a great decision matrix. Work With Chad https://bit.ly/CoachingWithChad  Listen and Subscribe Productive Pastor on iTunes | https://bit.ly/ProductivePastor Productive Pastor on Spotify | https://spoti.fi/3oIT5gf Chad on YouTube | https://bit.ly/RevChadBrooksYouTube Productive Pastor Email List | http://eepurl.com/hMfuGT  

Alright friends. This is a deep one. I was even working on it and thinking "I feel like this is much more important than I have the time for right now", but here it is.  In this episode, I talk about discernment and how the way we focus on the "why" behind our decisions. So buckle up and let's jump in.    Work With Chad https://bit.ly/CoachingWithChad  Listen and Subscribe Productive Pastor on iTunes | https://bit.ly/ProductivePastor Productive Pastor on Spotify | https://spoti.fi/3oIT5gf Chad on YouTube | https://bit.ly/RevChadBrooksYouTube Productive Pastor Email List | http://eepurl.com/hMfuGT  

How can the pastor of an average sized church learn from modern HR practices? In this episode I sit down with my wife, and we talk about the 10 years of professional experience she has in HR and apply it to her experience working in and with churches. Work With Chad https://bit.ly/CoachingWithChad  Listen and Subscribe Productive Pastor on iTunes | https://bit.ly/ProductivePastor Productive Pastor on Spotify | https://spoti.fi/3oIT5gf Chad on YouTube | https://bit.ly/RevChadBrooksYouTube Productive Pastor Email List | http://eepurl.com/hMfuGT  

Have you ever felt like you wasted a day off? Or maybe had that fear that a vacation or season of extended time off might be nerve-wracking? In this episode, I share 4 things I try to make part of any time off or sabbath rest.   Work With Chad https://bit.ly/CoachingWithChad  Listen and Subscribe Productive Pastor on iTunes | https://bit.ly/ProductivePastor Productive Pastor on Spotify | https://spoti.fi/3oIT5gf Chad on YouTube | https://bit.ly/RevChadBrooksYouTube Productive Pastor Email List | http://eepurl.com/hMfuGT    

One of our favorite conversations around the podcast is the digital tools that we LOVE to use. In this episode, I open up my bag and share the 4 digital tools I use every day (and a 5th that is trying to work its way in).  Mentioned Resources The Greatest Productivity Notebook | https://bit.ly/3z21PmO Work With Chad https://bit.ly/CoachingWithChad  Listen and Subscribe Productive Pastor on iTunes | https://bit.ly/ProductivePastor Productive Pastor on Spotify | https://spoti.fi/3oIT5gf Chad on YouTube | https://bit.ly/RevChadBrooksYouTube Productive Pastor Email List | http://eepurl.com/hMfuGT  

Welcome to the latest episode of Productive Pastor! In this episode, I dig into the idea of questions and how they can play a role in our sermon preparation.  Mentioned Resources 5 Preaching Islands to Avoid Preaching | Productive Pastor 006 What Do We Know To Be True Livestream Work With Chad https://bit.ly/CoachingWithChad  Listen and Subscribe Productive Pastor on iTunes | https://bit.ly/ProductivePastor Productive Pastor on Spotify | https://spoti.fi/3oIT5gf Chad on YouTube | https://bit.ly/RevChadBrooksYouTube Productive Pastor Email List | http://eepurl.com/hMfuGT

Have you ever become exhausted from decision-making in ministry? Many pastors feel the need to be a generalist in too many ways and forget that taking a call to ministry is deeply personal and wrapped up in the uniqueness of their personal creation by God.  In this episode of Productive Pastor, I get a little Bible nerdy and go into how I have become fascinated with understanding good, bad, and radically normal decision-making in the Bible. And I share how that creates a story to understand the necessity of personal ministry vision.  I go through the who, what, and how of crafting our own personal understandings of ministry and how that helps us navigate the decision-making matrix we call real life ministry. Mentioned  Work With Chad | https://bit.ly/CoachingWithChad  Listen and Subscribe   Productive Pastor on iTunes | https://bit.ly/ProductivePastor Productive Pastor on Spotify | https://spoti.fi/3oIT5gf Chad on YouTube | https://bit.ly/RevChadBrooksYouTube Productive Pastor Email List | http://eepurl.com/hMfuGT

Last week I asked a quick question over in the Productive Pastor Community on Facebook about what content folks would enjoy hearing. We had a great add-in suggestion asking about defining productivity, and I realized it was a good conversation before we jump into the next few episodes.  So what is productivity?  Knowledge, Awareness, and then Action.  Or at least that is how I will define it currently.  True and False Pastoral Productivity | Expositors Collective Work with Chad | https://bit.ly/CoachingWithChad Listen and Subscribe   Productive Pastor on iTunes | https://bit.ly/ProductivePastor Productive Pastor on Spotify | https://spoti.fi/3oIT5gf Chad on YouTube | https://bit.ly/RevChadBrooksYouTube Productive Pastor Email List | http://eepurl.com/hMfuGT