Finding Hope When Your Ministry World Collapses - Steve Carter - 109 - FrontStage BackStage with Jason Daye

How can we respond in a healthy way when our ministry world comes crashing down around us? In this week's conversation on FrontStage BackStage, host Jason Daye is joined by Steve Carter. Steve is a pastor, speaker, and author. He is the host of the Craft and Character podcast and the former Lead Teaching Pastor at Willow Creek Community Church. He currently serves as teaching pastor at Forest City Church, and his most recent book is entitled Grieve, Breathe, Receive. Together, Steve and Jason look at how to navigate disappointments and destabilizing seasons in our ministries. Steve shares from his own experiences as a pastor what God taught him about grieving, breathing, and receiving.

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Some key takeaways from this conversation:

Steve Carter on the importance of allowing oneself to experience and process the emotions that arise during times of transition or loss: "Grief is honoring what comes up when change shows up."

Steve Carter the significance of understanding and adapting to the conditions of one's environment in order to make the most of it and succeed despite the challenges: "You have to learn to live in the desert well."

Steve Carter on the relevance of confronting the reality of past actions or events rather than ignoring or downplaying them: "We cannot dismiss or minimize what has happened in our history. It happened."
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