Learning to Love and Lead the Different, the Difficult, & Everyone Else: an interview with Adam Weber

Adam Weber is the founder and lead pastor of Embrace, a multi-site church based out of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Author of Talking With God and Love Has A Name, he also hosts a podcast called The Conversation. Adam still cheers for the Cincinnati Bengals but no longer drives a Rambler. He’s married to his wife, Becky, and has four kids: Hudson, Wilson, Grayson, & Anderson. He also has seven chickens, two dogs, & three fish, but what he really wants is a sheep. Love has a Name: Learning to Love the Different, the Difficult, & Everyone Else is now available. What prompted Adam to write this book? In a culture that seems more polarized by the day, how do we love the difficult, different, and downright hard-to-love people we come in contact with everyday? What does love look like when people disagree with you in a polarized world? What are some ways pastors and church leaders can lead with love, especially during a challenging season?Resources mentioned in today's podcast: * Church Future Indicator * Love has a Name: Learning to Love the Different, the Difficult, & Everyone Else by Adam Weber * Love Has a Name Preaching Resources * The Conversation with Adam Weber podcast * One way to assist your church members to bridge the racial divide is through the Tyndale House Publishers’ Friendship Challenge. The Friendship Challenge is a practical 6-week program for individuals or groups to pursue racial reconciliation. The Friendship Challenge consists of a book and online videos to help you or your church heal racial division. For information go to https://www.tyndale.com/sites/thefriendshipchallenge/         Episode SponsorsTyndale recently launched a new website, tyndalechurchconnect.com/. The site supports church leaders with helpful content and resources from some of the world’s most trusted pastors and authors. You’ll find videos, study guides and book excerpts, along with some of Tyndale’s newest and most popular books and Bibles for churches and church leaders. Visit tyndalechurchconnect.com/ and sign up for the Church Connect e-newsletter to receive regular Church Connect updates by email. You can also learn how to get a free digital preview of my upcoming book, The Post-Quarantine Church—due to release in September. The mission at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary is to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ by ...