Episode 267: Blood Stained Pews & Becoming a Church for the Broken with Carl Kuhl

<div class="smart-track-player-container stp-color-ed702b-ed702b spp-stp-desktop" data-uid="29cc2c7b"></div><div class="spp-shsp-form spp-shsp-form-29cc2c7b"></div> <p>In this episode, Carl shares the importance of creating a church culture that embraces vulnerability and helps guide toward celebrating a journey of brokenness in people's lives. Carl also opens up about the &#8220;middle ground&#8221; that exists for churches around controversial topics and how to approach difficult conversations.</p> <h2>Carl Kuhl</h2> <p>Connect with Carl on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CarlKuhl4/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/carlkuhl4/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Instagram</a> | <a href="https://www.carlkuhl.org/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Website</a></p> <h2>Clearstream</h2> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Clearstream works with thousands of churches worldwide and integrates with tools your church already uses such as MailChimp, Church Community Builder, Rock RMS, Planning Center, and more. Find out more at <a href="https://clearstream.io/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clearstream.io</a>.</span></p> <h2>Episode Notes</h2> <p><strong>About Carl's Book</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Stained-Pews-Carl-Kuhl/dp/1949784908/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1646450954&sr=8-1&fbclid=IwAR0iahg6xO4-b4VUYk4tm588XAlHpppKBTBGEK2ZD8SqdGv6mJrsD3XEcRs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Blood Stained Pews</a> mindset = our churches should be places where the truly hurting and truly broken can be vulnerable and find healing to go back out into the world</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Thoughts from Carl</strong></p> <ul> <li>It's good to have vulnerability; It's better to have a gospel-centered vulnerability (you are worthy and you are enough)</li> <li>Gospel-centered vulnerability leads to freedom</li> <li>Difference between skepticism and cynicism <ul> <li>Skepticism = honest question that wants an answer</li> <li>Cynicism = negative questions that just want to tear down</li> </ul> </li> <li>You can’t love Jesus and hate the church</li> <li>Stories worth celebrating = when a hurting person finds hope</li> <li>Celebrate stories that don’t have a bow on them yet</li> <li>Kids are being indoctrinated so we must inoculate them with the truth; gospel-centered vulnerability is the secret weapon in ministering to kids in today’s culture and in parenting them so they do not end up deconstructing their faith</li> </ul> <ul> <li style="list-style-type: none;"></li> </ul> <h2>Action Items</h2> <ol> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Stained-Pews-Carl-Kuhl/dp/1949784908/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1646450954&sr=8-1&fbclid=IwAR0iahg6xO4-b4VUYk4tm588XAlHpppKBTBGEK2ZD8SqdGv6mJrsD3XEcRs" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span data-sheets-value="{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Read Carl's book&quot;}" data-sheets-userformat="{&quot;2&quot;:515,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;4&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:16043212},&quot;12&quot;:0}">Read Carl's book</span></a></li> <li><span data-sheets-value="{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Make a plan to share vulnerable stories&quot;}" data-sheets-userformat="{&quot;2&quot;:515,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;4&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:16043212},&quot;12&quot;:0}">Make a plan to share vulnerable stories</span></li> <li><span data-sheets-value="{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Find a way to challenge men directly&quot;}" data-sheets-userformat="{&quot;2&quot;:515,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;4&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:16043212},&quot;12&quot;:0}">Find a way to challenge men directly</span></li> </ol> <h2>Ministry Boost Coaching is back!</h2> <p><a href="https://ministryboost.org/coaching/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Click here to check out the amazing benefits of coaching groups with Ministry Boost.</a></p> <h2>Get Exclusive Content from this Week's Episode</h2> <p>Use the form below to subscribe to my email list where you’ll get an email each Tuesday when a new podcast comes out. 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