5LQ Episode 439: Jared C. Wilson

In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Todd Adkins and Chandler Vannoy are joined by Jared C. Wilson, editor of For The Church, professor, and author. They discuss gospel centrality and how reading can benefit preaching. BEST QUOTES “The aim of the church doesn’t change, but what has changed is our means of connection.” “Conversions, baptism, and discipleship – people growing in Christ – those are harder things to count.” “I would encourage pastors not to rethink the aim of your church, but to see all of the things you are doing not as a replacement for the mission but as the new way of getting at the same old aim.” “If you want to steward your seminary education for the kind of depth that will actually serve you as a pastor, you need to be somehow applying your studies to your affections for Christ.” “Seminary is not designed that you can take a break from being part of the body of Christ.” “Reading things outside of your normal best practices stretches different muscles and expands my sense of imagination which has translatable benefits for preaching.” “The Lord was closing doors because I should not have been responsible for people’s spiritual growth and at the time I did not understand that.” “I sometimes think of the last ten years of ministry as being the repentance tour for the first fifteen years of ministry.” “Your identity, your estimation of yourself, your summation of your ministry, cannot be based in your productivity or the outcome or in what people think about you.” RECOMMENDED RESOURCES Lifeway Leadership Podcast Network Lifeway.com/CoronaVirus For The Church Explicit Gospel by Matt Chandler and Jared C. Wilson The Gospel According to Satan by Jared C. Wilson The Gospel Driven Church by Jared C. Wilson Tailored Coach 5LQ Episode 438: Emotionally Healthy Pastor with Pete Scazzero and Ben Mandrell The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brother Karamazov by Fyodor Dotoyevsky