Leading Churches v. Businesses | What's Harder? With Gavin Adams

Dr. Gavin Adams, former Woodstock City Church Lead Pastor and entrepreneur, talks about why leading a church is harder than leading a business.
He also discusses overcoming your insecurity as a leader when working with gifted people and offers top advice from Home Depot, Popeye's, and Coca-Cola on leading and scaling change.
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Chapters
00:00 - Gavin Adams On Insecurities
05:37 - How to Know When You've Been Called into Ministry
13:46 - Pastors and Business Leaders: Be Bold
20:31 - What's More Difficult Than Leading a Church?
26:54 - A Pastor's Insecurities
31:20 - Carey Nieuwhof on Developing Confidence
43:23 - Gavin Adams on His First Week as Pastor
01:03:20 - How did you deal with no longer knowing the people who are attending?
01:06:38 - How Did You Deal with Dissatisfied People?
01:08:06 - Gavin Adams on His First Book
01:08:16 - Stepping Into the Leadership Transition
01:10:57 - Five Rules for Successful Leaders
01:12:31 - Organization vs Organization in the Church
01:15:54 - Stepping Into Big Shoes

[@stanleyobi-ejelue8734]

I love the perspectives on insecurity...thanks Carey and Garvin to putting this together 🎉

[@CareyNieuwhof]

Hope it was helpful!

[@bobninda]

I am part of a church that is struggling so this talk was incredibly helpful. More than you know. Thank you.

[@CareyNieuwhof]

so glad it was helpful and I'm sorry to hear your church is struggling

[@briansherwood3595]

I would add [and say this is priority] to knowing whether or not one is called into ministry is to ask the Lord to reveal it through His Word (The Bible)! I was in business with the same struggle, and when I came to Isaiah 61, the words appeared to almost leap off the pages to speak directly to me! When I came to verse 6: "You will be spoken of as ministers of our God," I knew that was the Lord's confirmation that He was calling me into vocational ministry. Prayer and immersion in the Word are essentials to discern a call to ministry.

[@CareyNieuwhof]

Thanks for sharing Brian

[@martinreyes5959]

Phenomenal insights Thanks Carey & Gavin

[@CareyNieuwhof]

Thanks for watching