Pastor Joshua Hayden has recently authored Remissioning Church, A Field Guide to Bringing a Congregation Back to Life, where he talks about transforming a church from the inside out to bring a new missional presence that brings life and flourishing to the neighborhood.

Book: Remissioning Church

• Why the tried and true strategies for church growth not working so well anymore
• Creative Destruction, Exegeting the Culture or Neighborhood, and Traditioned Innovation
• Patterns and Stages that a Church Might Experience in Remissioning

Josh Hayden is the co-founder and co-president of `Iwa Collaborative, which helps leaders fly high and live low as they lead through change processes in their community. He runs remissioning trainings through `Iwa Collaborative across various denominational, non-denominational, and global networks.

Josh Hayden is the senior pastor at First Baptist Church in Ashland, Virginia. For over 20 years he has worked and led in nonprofit organizations, church plants, and established churches. He has a doctorate in leadership and organizational change from Duke Divinity School and is the author of Remissioning Church and Sacred Hope. He serves on the boards of numerous nonprofits. He and his family live near Richmond, Virginia.

• Iwa Collaborative
• First Baptist Ashland VA

01:51 - Book: Remissioning Church

02:11 - Don't export your God-given mission to others

02:48 - Why the tried and true strategies for church growth not working so well anymore

02:54 - ...what most churches are doing have not produced healthy disciples that produce the fruit of the Spirit

03:28 - ...churches don't look much different from any other group

04:30 - ...we have lost the missional impulse to know our neighbors

06:40 - Major sections of the book: Creative Destruction, Exegeting the Culture or Neighborhood, and Traditioned Innovation

06:59 - ...Creative Destruction

08:36 - ...connected to Jesus (Matthew 16 : 24-25 - take up our cross and foloow Jesus)

10:49 - Exegeting the Church and Neighborhood

11:55 - ...creating a plan for how to live on mission creatively with God

14:20 - Traditioned Innovation

15:18 - ...we have to translate the past into what's next

18:55 - Patterns and Stages that a Church Might Experience in Remissioning

19:04 - Free download: www.ivpress.com/Media/Default/Downloads/Excerpts-and-Samples/A1055-Graphic-Image-Download.pdf

19:14 - ...remissioning change cycle

19:34 - ...do we have a mission worth dying for?

19:48 - ...working through pain, disillusionment and being unnerved

20:40 - ...then comes a moment of repent or resist

22:24 - ...do we have a mission worth living for?

27:24 - ...take the necessary time in the wilderness

31:11 - Common Concerns in Remissioning a Church

32:04 - Leading Through Remissioning

36:21 - Favorite Tools

36:25 - ...exegeting the neighborhood

37:13 - ...the work of remembering

39:07 - Remissioning is worth it

39:54 - Getting in Touch with Pastor Joshua Hayden - iwacollaborative.com

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Josh has recently authored Remissioning Church, A Field Guide to Bringing a Congregation Back to Life, where he talks about transforming a church from the inside out to bring a new missional presence that brings life and flourishing to the neighborhood.

Book: Remissioning Church

• How and why congregations might be dying
• Remissioning vs Revitalizing
• Inside-out transformation

Josh Hayden is the co-founder and co-president of `Iwa Collaborative, which helps leaders fly high and live low as they lead through change processes in their community. He runs remissioning trainings through `Iwa Collaborative across various denominational, non-denominational, and global networks.

Josh Hayden is the senior pastor at First Baptist Church in Ashland, Virginia. For over 20 years he has worked and led in nonprofit organizations, church plants, and established churches. He has a doctorate in leadership and organizational change from Duke Divinity School and is the author of Remissioning Church and Sacred Hope. He serves on the boards of numerous nonprofits. He and his family live near Richmond, Virginia.

• Iwa Collaborative
• First Baptist Ashland VA

00:39 - Introducing Pastor Josh Hayden

04:49 - How and why congregations might be dying

05:21 - ...churches in survival mode

05:38 - ...counting, not reflecting Jesus

05:59 - ...want people to lead, but rarely invite or train up leaders

06:33 - ...afraid of conflict, stuck in tradition

07:02 - How Josh's journey influenced the writing of the book

08:39 - Established Church vs Church Plant

10:10 - Exploring the book title: Remissioning Church

10:59 - ...Remissioning vs Revitalizing

14:01 - ...Remissioning was not a word that people were using regularly

15:44 - ...Is it RE-missioning or re-MISSION-ing?

18:29 - How does church leadership assess if the church should be remissioned?

18:45 - ...awareness of where the church is in the life cycle

19:02 - ...spiritual health of the church

19:10 - ...counting vs measuring

19:19 - ...honest evaluation

21:12 - How does the church leadership manage feelings in assessing a church?

23:40 - ...helping people navigate loss and change

24:52 - ...embrace conflict

26:02 - What does a healthy church look like?

26:04 - ...clear sense of how to make disciples who are good for the community

26:47 - ...common life with the community

26:53 - ...see change as God inviting us into a life-death-resurrection journey

27:20 - ...disciple people inside the church so not to export the mission of God to others

29:51 - What is the goal of remissioning a church?

32:08 - What needs to happen for inside-out tranforamtion to take place?

32:36 - ...people disclipling someone

33:35 - ...learn to live on mission with God

34:07 - ...live with more purpose and intention

34:42 - How and why is discipleship the mission of the chuch?

35:14 - ...a lot of pastors haven't been discipled

35:42 - ...not clear on what a mature disciple looks like

36:51 - ...church-hopping is the result of not having a clear discipleship process

40:02 - If your church disappeared, would the community notice?

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Dr. Octavio Esqueda, full Professor of Christian Higher Education and Director of the Ph.D. and Ed.D. Programs in Educational Studies at the Talbot School of Theology at Biola University, shares on how the gospel redefines masculinity.

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• Mother's Day vs Father's Day in Churches
• Important Messages to Highlight
• Character, not Competency

• Octavio Javier Esqueda is a full Professor of Christian Higher Education and Director of the Ph.D. and Ed.D. Programs in Educational Studies at Talbot School of Theology at Biola University. He was born and raised in Guadalajara, México. He graduated with honors with a Licenciatura in Latin American Literature from the University of Guadalajara and two additional diplomas, one in Religion and Society and the second in Journalism. He graduated with honors from Dallas Theological Seminary and completed his Ph.D. in Higher Education at the University of North Texas. He and his wife, Angélica, have two children, Darío and Salma. Dr. Esqueda has several publications on theological education and Christian higher education, practical theology, and literature. Teaching is his passion, and he has had the opportunity to teach in several countries on different academic levels. He is an avid soccer fan.

00:37 - Introducing Dr. Octavio Esqueda

03:19 - Differences in Mother's Day and Father's Day Observances in Churches

06:07 - How Churches Can Improve in This Area

06:42 - ...elevate Father's Day like Mother's Day

06:47 - ...two important messages that need to be highlighted

07:06 - ......the mothers' affirmation come from being - her love is unconditional

07:16 - ......when the fathers' affirmation comes from doing - it's never enough

07:49 - ......many fathers believe that their role is to provide, so they are never with their family

08:01 - ...but as Christians, our value is in who we are

08:47 - ...A key aspect of adult motivation is feeling competent

09:26 - ...but no one teaches us how to be a parent

10:00 - ...emphasizing the value of who we are gives us the desire to do without fearing failure

10:42 - Character, not Competency

11:30 - ...instead of pulling in the cultural norms, bring the gospel out

12:34 - A Common Problem in Evangelicalism

12:51 - ...we forget that the whole message is about grace

13:14 - ...God loves us unconditionally not only at salvation, but for our whole lives

14:19 - Unique Challenges Faced by Men of Color

14:48 - ...expression of love and affection are not affirmed

14:59 - ...or to imitate a model that was absent

15:07 - ...tell parents how to live a Christian life

16:43 - ...need to know how and be trained

17:10 - ..cultural expectations for men

19:48 - God's Love in the Story of the Prodigal Son

21:23 - Breaking the Cycle Starts with Us

23:19 - Contacting Dr Octavio Esqueda: amazon.com | x.com/OctavioEsqueda | LinkedIn

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