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
674 episodes
How to Disagree With Your Senior Pastor (Without Getting Fired)
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, host Todd Rhoades discusses how church staff should approach situations where they disagree with the senior pastor's direction, focusing on distinguishing between preference and principle disagr...
When Your Senior Pastor Doesn't Actually Lead
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, Todd Rhoades addresses the frustration many church staff members face when their senior pastor fails to make decisive leadership decisions. Todd explores reasons for this leadership gap, such as...
The Three Conversations Before the Termination Conversation
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, Todd Rhoades discusses the essential steps for handling employee termination effectively and ethically. He emphasizes the importance of transparency and communication throughout the process to e...
When You Have to Fire Someone Everyone Loves
The podcast discusses the challenges of terminating an employee who is well-liked but not meeting performance expectations. It highlights the difficulty of balancing personal feelings with organizational needs and offers steps to handle the situat...
The Termination You're Delaying Is Hurting Everyone Else
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, host Todd Rhoades addresses the difficult topic of delaying necessary terminations within a church team. He explains how failing to make timely decisions negatively impacts both high-performing ...
The Prosperity Gospel Conversation You Need to Have With Your Team
This episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, hosted by Todd Rhoades, delves into the issue of theological drift within church staff, particularly concerning the unintentional influence of prosperity gospel thinking. Despite church leaders ...
The Ministry Leader Who Stopped Learning (And What It Cost)
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, Todd Rhoades discusses the often overlooked issue of leaders plateauing in their growth and the impact it has on their teams. He emphasizes the importance of continuous learning for personal and...
When Your Church Staff Disagrees on Immigration
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff podcast, Todd Rhoades discusses how church leaders can navigate tensions arising from staff disagreements on cultural issues, such as immigration, communicated through social media. Todd outlines common ...
The Generation That Won't Bet Their Family's Future on Faith Alone
The podcast episode discusses the challenges faced by churches in hiring ministry candidates due to inadequate compensation relative to current economic realities. It emphasizes the importance of fair pay and financial planning for ministry roles,...
The Three-Second Practice That Could Save Your Staff Culture
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff podcast, Todd Rhoades discusses the importance of acknowledging the small, everyday contributions of church staff. He emphasizes that true staff culture is developed through recognition of these micro mo...
The Standard Is Christ, Not Church Culture
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, host Todd discusses the common issue of declining standards and accountability within church staff environments. He emphasizes the importance of striving for excellence in ministry work and addr...
Your Ministry Resume Can't Hide Your Character Forever
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, host Todd Rhoades discusses the importance of character over credentials in hiring for church staff. While resumes and references may secure interviews and jobs, it's character that determine...
When "Trusting God" Becomes an Excuse for Not Doing Your Job
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, co-host Todd Rhoades discusses the delicate balance between faith and responsibility in church leadership. He highlights how relying solely on spiritual language can sometimes mask procrastin...
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 ...