5 Leadership Questions: A Leadership Podcast Featuring Interviews With Carey Nieuwhof, Craig Groeschel, Matt Chandler, Jen Wi

In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Todd Adkins and Daniel Im are joined by Drew Hill, pastor and author of Alongside: Loving Teenagers With the Gospel. During their conversation, they discuss the difficulties in lead pastoring and being open with your failures. BEST QUOTES “I've really been encouraged by Peter's failures." "My relationship with the Lord has been much more influenced by Scripture than by other books." "Everything that I know and believe are built on the things that have gone before." "We have to allow the Lord to strip us of our productivity so we realize that He doesn't need us, but He wants us, and we need Him desperately." "Sharing the pulpit has been a gift in our church." "I don't want to give people a place of a tour I haven't been." "Being a lead pastor has been way harder than I ever thought." "The biggest tension I struggle with everyday is am I a CEO or am I a pastor?" "We are not going to be as polished as I want us to be right now, and that's OK." "Do I

In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Todd Adkins and Daniel Im breakdown the leadership book The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business by Patrick Lencioni. In their conversation they discuss the following questions: What's the book and why does it matter? Overview of the book How applicable is the book to leadership in my church? What are things churches should ignore from the book? What can you do this week in light of the book? BEST QUOTES “When we are negative or frustrated it is about our environment, when someone else is negative we assume it is something about their character." "You have to slow down in order to go fast." "If people don't weigh in, they can't buy in." "Your organization can only implement a leadership pipeline when you do it together." "If you don't know the answers to these questions, stop hiring people." "Maybe the reason your church is not impacting your community the way you want it to is because you don't know the

In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Todd Adkins and Daniel Im are joined by Todd Phillips, founder and executive director of The Last Well. During their conversation, they discuss how The Last Well got started and the idea of Wilberforce moments. BEST QUOTES “What's the worst place in the world  no one wants to go? What's the greatest physical need in that area that we can use to share the gospel?" "The mission became bring the gospel and clean water to the entire nation of Liberia, border to border - every man, woman, and child - by 2020." "This started because God chose to sovereignly move in the hearts and minds of young adults who still believed God could do great things." "There are millions of more people that don't exist on any census data that need to hear the gospel and we don't even know they are there." "We have to be experts at influence." "There have to be borders around the projects we are doing." "We should have Wilberforce moments happening daily around the world." "I

In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Todd Adkins and Daniel Im are joined by Paul Tripp, author of Dangerous Calling and Parenting. During their conversation, they discuss maturing in leadership and the type of people to surround yourself with to be successful. BEST QUOTES “If you write every day, at the end of the month you have a lot of material at hand." "Weakness is not in the way of what God wants to do with me, but my delusions of strength are." "Spiritually healthy ministry that has longevity and produces good fruit is always the work of a community." "I want to surround myself with people who are just as committed to kingdom ministry as I am, but are smart in places where I'm not." "Character trumps gift." "I pray not because it's a personal religious habit, but because in those people's lives I am only ever a tool." "I want people in my life who will help me to see me." "How do I live out the commitment God has called me to with my family in this new stage my family is in?"

In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Todd Adkins and Daniel Im are joined by Russell Moore, president of the ERLC and author of The Storm-Tossed Family: How the Cross Reshapes the Home. During their conversation, they discuss how artificial intelligence will affect families and churches and difficulties faced in family relationships. BEST QUOTES “It's not that there's something wrong with you. You have to battle this together." "Every family relationship brings with it the possibility of heartbreak." "The church tends to think that the most important issues that it faces are whatever issues people are debating on Facebook right now." "There's going to be real questions about what does it mean to be human and what does it mean to count someone as human that will be facing us a lot more rapidly than we think now." "The technological ecosystem we are in right now tends to change us in ways we don't know about." "In the way we prepare kids for puberty, we need to be preparing people for mid

In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Todd Adkins is joined by Megan Dredge, the global leadership coach for Propel Women. During their conversation, they discuss authenticity and the three words that define how her family operates. BEST QUOTES “As a leader, we've got to have the space where we can be authentic." "Goals can seem finite. Milestones are something you can work toward." "What is it that inspires you to be a better leader?' "I have an opportunity whether it's one lesson or one day to influence this life." "One of the greatest gifts you can give as a leader is the gift of your authenticity." "I am learning to continue to embrace all of the hats that I wear and all of the responsibilities that I have." "You can't separate who you are from how you lead, and nor should you." "We sit every morning and we have a coffee and we talk and connect." "We are trying to train our kids to look around and say, 'How can I serve the family right now?'" "Your leadership spans across context

In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Todd Adkins and Daniel Im are joined by Chris Surratt and Brian Daniel, cohosts of the Group Answers Podcast. During their conversation, they discuss the current emphasis areas in their work and advice they would give themselves when they were younger. BEST QUOTES “Our emphasis is on innovation. When you are having success that's not the time when you sit back and say look at what we are doing. You always push forward." "Currency that you have in leadership has to be used." "The leadership in my life has really changed from more of a directive to an example and a relationship." "For me, it's been a unique season because I haven't been on a church staff for three years after being on a church staff for 24 years straight." "I threw so much into being a good leader at church that I wasn't always a good leader at home." "My oldest daughter and I would run together and I would use that time to talk about what I felt like God was revealing to me." "I want

In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Todd Adkins and Daniel Im are joined by Thom Rainer and Jonathan Howe, cohosts of the Rainer on Leadership Podcast. During their conversation, they discuss church revitalization and succession plans. BEST QUOTES “They decided they were going to go into their community with the gospel, not just with a social ministry." "I'm a better churchman, husband, and father because of him." "We have a constant feedback loop. That feedback loop often leads me to what I am going to read next." "We have a better idea of what is going on in the local church as a result of that feedback loop." "I think we are 5 to 10 years away from a crisis of youth ministry." "We want to be able to have any church at any point be able to get some type of revitalization help and resource." "The idea is for those churches that have resources to come together in a collective spot to resource other churches. It becomes a network of churches helping churches." "The best rhythm I've go

In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Todd Adkins and Daniel Im are joined by Kandi Gallaty, author of Disciple Her and wife of pastor Robby Gallaty. During their conversation, they discuss being discipled, starting discipleship groups, and discipleship at home. BEST QUOTES “We are both very passionate about keeping people in the Word for themselves." "The beauty of discipleship is when your discipleship group functions as it should you learn from the men and women in the group." "In the society we live in, we spend more time reading other people's words than we do reading the Word of the Lord." "We are trying to model all those things we want to instill in our kids." "We capitalize on dinner time and bedtime by having conversations and looking for teachable moments." "If you lead yourself well, you will be able to lead others well." "Look around your small group setting and pray about who you can approach to disciple you." "Pray through a Bible reading plan of some sort and talk to th

In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Todd Adkins and Daniel Im are joined by Kevin Queen, lead pastor of Cross Point Church in Nashville, Tenn. During their conversation, they discuss the importance of waiting on God through prayer and the process of transitioning to new roles when compelled by God. BEST QUOTES “I think I've been holding my breath for an entire year." "It's in the gut-wrenching waiting that God does a work in us to prepare us for the turn." "You'll be the same person ten years from now as you are today, except for the places you go, the people you meet, and the books that you read." "Prayer is the most powerful and effective force on the planet." "Just because you are the first one up the mountain doesn't mean you are the leader." "Slow down for the last one in the group and help them access, understand, and believe." "I wonder how many doors I pried open rather than waiting and praying them open." "Prayer is not the only thing we do, it is just the first thing we do.

In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Todd Adkins and Daniel Im are joined by Paul Sohn, a leadership consultant, author of Quarter-Life Calling, founder of QARA, and former change management consultant at Boeing. During their conversation, they discuss finding your true identity in Christ and preparing for marriage. BEST QUOTES “If your identity is not set in Christ, you are going to struggle and be stagnant." "What do I need to do in order to earn his approval? To earn his love?" "As God is helping me become more confident and secure in who I am, I realize that I have bought into some of these lies myself." "God's been challenging me to commit my entire day starting with prayer." "God's been really preparing me to learn what does it mean to be a leader of a family." "I think one of the best things you can do to prepare yourself for marriage is to work on your character." "I was succeeding in the wrong things and, as a result, I was not being fulfilled." "This generation is not really

In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Todd Adkins is joined by Brad Lomenick, past leader of Catalyst and author of H3 Leadership. During their conversation, they discuss the following questions: What is one thing you've read recently that has had an impact? What are you listening to? What is one tool or resource you've started using recently? Who is one person who has influenced you recently? What is one lesson you've learned recently? BEST QUOTES “The reality is everyone of us would say there are 20somethings on our teams who would be the opposite of what the research shows." "He inspires me to think, what can I do with what influence I have?" "Fifteen minute conversations twenty years removed always remind you of who you are and where you came from." "We have no idea the influence we have on somebody's life that we will never even meet through somebody that we pour into and develop." "Living a life of gratitude is both helpful for that person to encourage them but also make

In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Todd Adkins and Daniel Im breakdown the leadership book The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals by Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, and Jim Huling. In their conversation they discuss the following questions: What's the book and why does it matter? Overview of the book How applicable is the book to leadership in my church? What are things churches should ignore from the book? What can you do this week in light of the book? BEST QUOTES “If you practice these four disciplines of execution, you will reach your goals." "If you want results you need strategy and execution." "We are not only selling the vision, now we are breaking it down into parts so we can actually accomplish the goal." "If you want to get out of the whirlwind, then you need to develop a pipeline." "Lag measures are the results that you get. Lead measures are the inputs that you do." "For a lot of churches what stands between them and getting stuff d

In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Todd Adkins and Daniel Im are joined by Jeff Iorg, president of Gateway Seminary and author of Leading Major Change in Your Ministry. During their conversation, they discuss the following questions: Is change more difficult today than it has been in the past? How do you identify specifically what needs to be changed in your church? How do you prepare yourself before you lead a major change effort? How do you know when to start the change process? When do you start another change effort after you feel like the current one is finished? BEST QUOTES “Change seems to be happening much more rapidly and there seems to be so much more change coming at us." "People are experiencing so much change in other places, that they typically have their change quotient exhausted in those locations. They want church to be a place of stability." "Is the change I am considering essential to the mission of the church?" "Reorganization is the default of board exec

In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Todd Adkins and Daniel Im are joined by Albert Tate, Lead Pastor of Fellowship Monrovia and host of The Albert Tate Podcast. During their conversation, they discuss how leaders need community and starting a family devotion time. BEST QUOTES “I'm built to speak at a certain height, and it's really a challenge to my leadership because I have a hard time breaking vision down into bite-sized pieces." "I've learned as a leader I have to guard my heart, my mouth, my presence, how I interact with people because I am their shepherd." "I get to bring a better version of myself to conversations with my wife because I've had a space to process that in community." "Where do shepherds go to bleed? Go find another shepherd!" "So many pastors are struggling in isolation and they don't have good godly community." "I got freedom for it to not be perfect, to not expect theological nuggets to drop out of my children's mouths." "I would tell myself to dream big and you

In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Todd Adkins is joined by Kevin Peck, Lead Pastor of The Austin Stone Church and co-author of Designed to Lead. During their conversation, they discuss examining how culture has changed since the church opened and practical advice for leading the family. BEST QUOTES “We are learning that we have to actually listen to people who may have more cultural knowledge but not more ministry knowledge and we have to solve the problem together." "How do we maintain clarity and accountability to one another in our team in a context of such high innovation?" "I've found that if I am doing well in one of my self-discipline habits, I am doing well in them all. And if I fail in one, over time I start failing in them all." "I've told my accountability folks that you can ask about any of these things and if I answer, "No," to one of them, you need to ask me about all of them." "A lot of things that feel like curses are actually blessings from the Lord." "Saturday Feedb

In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Todd Adkins and Daniel Im are joined by Rosaria Butterfield, author of The Gospel Comes With a House Key. During their conversation, they discuss the following questions: Overview of The Gospel Comes With a House Key How did you experience hospitality that led to your conversion? To what extent is it a post-hospitable world? Discuss the concept that there isn't a lot of commonality between gay men and lesbian women. How can church leaders who have been hurt begin to open their hearts to being hospitable again? BEST QUOTES “The one place you are called to seek out strangers, make by God's grace those strangers into neighbors, and watch by God's grace those neighbors become part of the family of God is your home." "We are missing the opportunity to put the hand of the stranger into the hand of the Savior. We really do love our neighbors, but we don't love them enough." "If Jesus is the answer, what is the question? Do you care what my question

In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Todd Adkins and Daniel Im are joined by J.D. Greear, pastor of The Summit Church, the 62nd president of the Southern Baptist Convention, and cohost of the Ask Me Anything Podcast. During their conversation, they discuss the following questions: Why did you start the Ask Me Anything podcast? What's been your favorite episode so far? How do you decide what to talk about? In hosting your own podcast, what have you learned about yourself through the process? What's the main point of emphasis with your team at The Summit? What are some books you've read recently that you would recommend? BEST QUOTES  “One well answered question can do as much as a sermon does because you are applying the gospel and biblical truth to a place that people need it." "At the end of the day I'm called to pastor regular people." "You have to learn to be sober about your own gifts and wiring." "I love being able to delve into people's questions and I love being able t

In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Todd Adkins and Daniel Im are joined by Andy Crouch, author of The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place and partner for culture and theology at Praxis. During their conversation, they discuss cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence and having technology boundaries in the home. BEST QUOTES “It's not about screens, it's not about limits, and it's not about the kids." "One hour a day, one day a week, and one week a year, everything with an off switch gets turned off." "One of the things about being a public person is lots of people know you and no one knows you." "What we are thinking about is how you have growth without sacrificing depth." "I start a lot of books, but I don't finish many." "If it's an author really worth listening to, wherever they take me is in the long run going to be helpful to me." "We are going to be tempted to turnover to these machine-based learning systems decision making power and it'

In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Daniel Im is joined by Ken Coleman, host of The Ken Coleman Show and EntreLeadership Podcast. During their conversation, they discuss daily tasks that can be done for continued growth and parenting kids to give great effort and attitude. BEST QUOTES “I am not as focused on how big the audience is right now, I need to keep my head focused on is the audience themselves growing?" "I need to keep my head down and work on what I can do and let God take care of the rest of it." "Consistent progress over time is going to get me to the same place the rocket ship will get me." "I set my life up in a way that I am naturally and habitually doing these three things on a daily basis." "If you aren't in your ultimate role yet, but you are paying your dues, there are still elements of that ultimate role everyday that you can find to do." "What am I learning today, what am I doing today, and how am I connecting today?" "What I require for our kids is great effort a