Pastoral Problems

Pastoral Problems is where pastors Phil Stanley and Justin Wright talk honestly about ministry—the meaningful, the messy, and the completely ridiculous. Expect real conversations about church leadership, preaching, discipleship, culture, and pastor life, mixed with humor, wild church stories, and plenty of rabbit trails. Pastoral problems are inevitable. Becoming one is optional.

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  Episode #3

  Pastoral Problems: Surviving the Gut Punches of Ministry

  Aug 24, 202653 minS1

  <p>Ministry can give you some incredible victories—and then punch you in the mouth five minutes later.</p><p>In this episode of Pastoral Problems, Phil Stanley and Justin Wright start with golf scores, an alarming number of guitars, a collapsing drum shield, fake church plants, disastrous summer weddings, and a few rabbit trails that probably should have stayed off the air.</p><p>Eventually, they get serious about one of the hardest lessons pastors have to learn: how to get back up when ministry doesn’t go the way you expected.</p><p>Using Joshua’s defeat at Ai, Pe...

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  Pastoral Problems: God Called Her to Pastor. Apparently Heaven Forgot to Check the Bylaws.

  Aug 17, 202645 minS1

  <p>God Called Her to Pastor. Apparently Heaven Forgot to Check the Bylaws.In our very first "official" episode of Pastoral Problems, we jump straight into a conversation that has generated plenty of discussion in the Church: women in ministry and pastoral leadership.We believe God calls and equips women to serve at every level of ministry, including as pastors, and in this episode we talk through why. We discuss Scripture, church culture, leadership, some of the arguments surrounding the issue, and what we’ve seen through our own experiences in ministry.It’s an honest, thoughtful conversation about calling, gift...

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  Pastoral Problems: "It's Only Going To Get Worse."

  Aug 10, 20261h 14mS1

  <p>In this episode of Pastoral Problems, Phil Stanley and Justin Wright introduce you to the kind of conversations you can expect around here: strange prayer requests, church stories you really can’t make up, unnecessary rabbit trails, and a few “hot takes” that turn out to be more like mildly warm takes.But somewhere between sleeping saints, potlucks, church growth, and the talking part of your phone, things get serious. Phil and Justin talk about building real community, why discipleship can’t simply be reduced to a program, the difference between knowing about Jesus and actually knowing Him, and why past...

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