The Healthy Church Staff Podcast
We're all about helping create a healthy, positive, and spiritually positive environment for church staff members and leadership teams.
Episodes
661 episodes
The Work Ethic Conversation Your Staff Isn't Having
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, host Todd Rhoades discusses the challenges of maintaining standards of excellence in church staff culture while balancing grace. He addresses the issue of staff members using spiritual langua...
Excellence Isn't a Spiritual Gift (And Why That's Good News)
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, host Todd Rhoades discusses the tendency in churches to accept mediocrity under the guise of spirituality. He emphasizes the importance of striving for excellence in church work, not to impre...
The Settlement Syndrome: How Sustainable Ministry Can Steal Your Joy
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff podcast, host Todd Rhoades discusses the concept of 'bland-out' culture as an unintended consequence of setting personal boundaries to avoid burnout. Rhoades emphasizes the importance of finding a bal...
The Competency Trap: Why Being Better at Ministry Doesn't Always Make You Happier
This episode of the Healthy Church Staff podcast, hosted by Todd Rhoades, explores the paradox ministers often face of growing in competency but feeling less satisfaction in their roles. It emphasizes aligning one's calling with their skills to...
The Dangerous Middle: When Ministry Feels Like Just a Job
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, host Todd Rhoades discusses the concept of being in the 'dangerous middle'—a state where ministry leaders feel competent but lack passion. Rhoades explores why this drift from passion to prof...
Redesigning Your Role: When the Job Description Doesn't Fit Your Gifts Anymore
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, Todd Rhoades discusses the misalignment many church staff face between their roles and their God-given strengths. He addresses the slow drift in job responsibilities and offers guidance on ho...
When You're Good at Your Job But Don't Love It Anymore
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, Todd Rhoades discusses the difference between being competent in ministry and finding fulfillment in it. He highlights the importance of alignment between one's deepest gifts and the church's...
The Church Staff Identity Crisis: When Your Team Doesn't Know What You Stand For
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, host Todd Rhoades discusses the importance of church staff understanding and articulating the unique identity and mission of their church. Without a shared understanding, staff members may fe...
Your Ministry Thread: The Missing Link Between Church Values and Staff Alignment
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, host Todd Rhoades discusses the importance of connecting church values with staff alignment. While many churches have articulated their core values, they often fail to communicate how these v...
When Staff Live Different Values Than the Church Preaches
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff podcast, Todd Rhoades discusses the critical issue of the gap between a church's stated values and the actual lived values by its staff. He emphasizes the importance of alignment between these values to ...
What’s Actually Killing the Church: A 250-Year Autopsy
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, Todd Rhoades discusses the evolving challenges and perceived 'deaths' of the church from 1776 to today. Despite changes in church attendance and involvement over the centuries, the church con...
Stop Defaulting to 'Where'd You Get Your mDiv"
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff podcast, the focus is on reevaluating church hiring practices that overly prioritize seminary degrees over practical ministry experience. The discussion highlights how relying too much on theological ...
The Ministry Training Pipeline Is About to Change Forever
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, Todd Rhoades discusses the shifting landscape of ministry hiring practices. He presents a growing challenge in reconciling the high costs of seminary education with stagnant ministry salaries an...
The Financial Reality Check Your Church Board Needs
In this episode, Todd Rhoades discusses the challenges of aligning seminary education requirements with realistic compensation in church staffing. He highlights the financial burdens placed on new hires due to the cost of theological education and...
Why Churches Want Seminary Training But Won't Pay Seminary Prices
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, Todd Rhoades discusses the challenges churches face when hiring qualified ministry leaders with inadequate compensation. He highlights the financial burdens faced by seminary graduates and sugge...
When Your Dream Candidate Can't Afford to Say Yes
The podcast episode discusses how churches often face a disconnect between their compensation offerings and the financial needs of ideal candidates. It emphasizes the importance of addressing budget constraints transparently and maintaining relati...
The Student Debt Conversation You're Not Having with Ministry Candidates
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, Todd Rhoades discusses the critical importance of having transparent financial discussions with potential church staff hires, especially concerning student debt. The failure to address financial...
God Will Provide Is Not a Financial Plan
The Healthy Church Staff Podcast discusses the importance of financial planning for ministry leaders. Host Todd Rhoades highlights the misconception that relying solely on faith without financial awareness is adequate. He stresses the need for hon...
The False Urgency Epidemic on Church Staff
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, Todd Rhoades addresses the issue of false urgency within church environments, where every task is treated as an immediate necessity. He discusses the detrimental effects of manufactured crises o...
The Perseverance Paradox: When Grit Becomes Gridlock
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff podcast, host Todd Rhoades discusses the distinction between biblical perseverance and stubborn resistance within church staff dynamics. He emphasizes the importance of staying mission-focused while b...
Ministry Minimum Wage: The Hidden Cost of Underpaying Church Staff
This podcast episode, hosted by Todd Rhoades, addresses the issue of underpaying ministry staff and how it impacts churches negatively. It highlights the cycle of attracting underqualified candidates due to low salaries, resulting in increased ...
Ministry PTSD: Leading Staff Who've Been Hurt by the Church
This podcast episode explores the concept of 'Ministry PTSD,' a condition seen in church staff members who carry emotional wounds from past negative experiences in ministry environments. The host, Todd Rhoades, discusses how these invisible wou...
The Faithful Few: The Pastor's Summer Advantage You're Missing
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, Todd Rhoades encourages church staff to see the summer 'slump' as a prime opportunity to build and strengthen relationships with the most committed members of their congregation. Instead of v...
The Faithful Few: Programming for Presence, Not Attendance
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, Todd Rhoades discusses the common issue of reduced church attendance during the summer months, often referred to as the 'summer slump'. Rather than focusing on retaining those who are absent,...
The Faithful Few: Your Most Committed People Are Ready for More
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, Todd Rhoades discusses the concept of a 'summer slump' in ministry, where volunteer attendance drops during June and July. However, he emphasizes that summer also reveals those who are truly ...