Breakthrough ideas with Barrett: 

• How can a church reach Christians who live in the city, from within the city, not just the suburbs?
• True fulfillment as a Christ-following leader comes from a deep sense of two key understandings.
• Why it is important to bring yourself back to your calling as a leader, not someone else’s.
• It is hard to truly rest if people are constantly in contact, and what to do about it.
• Every leader needs to know their symptoms of exhaustion and unkempt health.
• The importance of every small group having direct contact with this person.
• Marry Biblical Gospel rooted purpose with a vocational dream and people are not just looking for a job after school, they are being sent into a calling.
• The big problem of never really casting vision beyond week-to-week ministry engagement.
• How does the horizon storyline work and why is it important?
• Learn the art of “purposed nothingness” and how this makes room for the Holy Spirit.
• The one big idea to having a church of deep maturing disciples who are loving caring people reaching the lost.
• Three things that, together, are the source of life and effectiveness in ministry.

Breakthrough resources from this episode:

Island Community Church

Zeal Without Burnout by Christopher Ash

M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan

God Dreams by Will Mancini

Dangerous Calling by Paul David Tripp

New Morning Mercies by Paul David Tripp

Barrett Bowden is the pastor of Island Community Church, a young and thriving congregation in downtown Memphis. Barrett has a heart for leading the church to invest in its unique, urban context and to cultivate missional leaders with a heart for the nations. Barrett is married to Michelle, an adolescent pediatrician in the Memphis area, and they have one adorable daughter, Caroline Jane.

 

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