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  • The Missional Church: From Mentoring to Multiplication

    The Missional Church: From Mentoring to Multiplication
    2025/12/15
    In this episode of The Five Gifts Podcast, Bruce Ritter and Charles Russell examine Paul’s model of mission, discipleship, and leadership reproduction. Through the lens of Paul’s missionary journeys and epistles, they explore how churches multiply through demonstration, imitation, and reproduction—when leaders carry both the tenderness of a mother and the leadership of a father. This conversation offers a biblical, relational framework for leaders who want to build healthy, reproducing churches rooted in evangelism, formation, and shared ministry.
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    33 分
  • Leading from Your True Self: The Emotions of a Leader

    Leading from Your True Self: The Emotions of a Leader
    2025/12/08
    This episode explores one of the most neglected areas of Christian leadership: the emotional life of the leader. Bruce and Charles examine how God created us to feel, why emotions are essential for spiritual growth, and how suppressing them leads to burnout, false identity, and spiritual stagnation. Drawing from Scripture, the life of Jesus, and insights from emotionally healthy spirituality, they walk through: • The theology of emotions • How the false self forms • The identity temptations in Jesus’ wilderness experience • The concept of differentiation and why leaders need it • Four practices that help leaders live from their true self in Christ Listeners will walk away with clarity, hope, and practical tools for integrating emotional maturity with spiritual leadership. Key Scriptures: • Genesis 1 • Matthew 3–4 • Luke 4 • John 17 Resources Mentioned: • Emotionally Healthy Spirituality (Scazzero) • The Cry of the Soul (Allender & Longman) Reflective Question: Where is God inviting you to move from your false self into your true self? Coaching & Next Steps: If you'd like support in your leadership journey, Bruce and Charles offer leadership training, spiritual life coaching, and organizational consulting: • coachingcardia.com • charlesrusselltraining.com • charlesrussellministries.com
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    38 分
  • A Discipleship Dilemma: Breaking Barriers to Spiritual Reproduction

    A Discipleship Dilemma: Breaking Barriers to Spiritual Reproduction
    2025/12/01
    Is your church perfectly designed to produce the results it’s producing—even if it’s not producing disciples? In this powerful episode, Bruce Ritter and Charles Russell unpack the 10 major barriers that keep churches from making disciples. Discover why many churches unintentionally form consumers instead of disciples, and what pastors and leaders can do to shift the culture toward spiritual formation, relational discipleship, and genuine transformation. Whether you’re a pastor, ministry leader, coach, or someone passionate about raising up mature followers of Jesus, this episode will bring clarity, conviction, and a roadmap for change. You’ll Learn: • The 10 barriers that block disciple making in churches • Why discipleship fails when it’s optional • How low expectations shape weak spiritual cultures • Why pastors must shift from performers to equippers • Why discipleship can’t be a program—it must be a culture • How churches can break free from “quick results thinking” • How to lead slow, relational, transformational disciple-making
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    43 分
  • A Leader's Feasting: Spiritual Disciplines

    A Leader's Feasting: Spiritual Disciplines
    2025/11/24
    This Thanksgiving, Bruce Ritter and Charles Russell invite you to slow down and partake in a feast for the soul. In this holiday episode, we explore the Disciplines of Engagement—the practices that anchor us in the presence of Jesus and move us beyond striving, busyness, and cultural expectations. Together, we unpack themes of: • Abiding vs. striving • Resting vs. performing • Presence vs. pace • Intimacy vs. impressing • Following the crucified Jesus, not the Americanized one • Gratitude as spiritual recalibration • Engagement as the pathway to emotionally healthy discipleship Through Scripture, pastoral insight, and coaching application, Bruce and Charles guide you into a deeper, slower, more Spirit-led way of living this holiday season. Work with a leadership coach: charlesrussellministries.com charlesrusselltraining.com coachingcardia.com
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    34 分
  • The Leader’s Influence: How Leaders Lead

    The Leader’s Influence: How Leaders Lead
    2025/11/16
    Every leader leaves a mark—but what kind of mark are you leaving? In this powerful episode of The Five Gifts Podcast, hosts Bruce Ritter and Charles Russell unpack what true influence looks like for Spirit-filled leaders. Drawing from biblical principles, leadership theory, and years of ministry experience, they reveal how God shapes a leader’s credibility, trustworthiness, and vision to reflect His nature. Discover how your character becomes the foundation of credibility, how trust multiplies your reach, and how God’s vision—not your ambition—creates lasting impact. You’ll also learn why influence isn’t about control or charisma, but about forming Christ in others through faithful example and service. If you’re ready to grow as a leader who shapes people and cultures for the Kingdom, this episode will challenge, inspire, and equip you. 👉 Subscribe to The Five Gifts Podcast on YouTube, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts. 👉 Learn more about leadership coaching from Bruce and Charles at: • coachingcardia.com • charlesrussellministries.com • charlesrusselltraining.com
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    28 分
  • The Divine Architect: How God Shapes Spiritual Leaders

    The Divine Architect: How God Shapes Spiritual Leaders
    2025/11/10
    True spiritual leadership does not begin with strategy. It begins with surrender. In this episode, Bruce Ritter and Charles Russell uncover the divine process God uses to shape leaders from the inside out. If you have ever wondered why God takes His time developing you, or why your journey includes difficulty, waiting seasons, and stretching moments, this conversation will bring clarity and confidence. In this episode you will learn: • Why being matters before doing • How God uses life experiences, wounds, and seasons to shape leaders • The danger and redemption of the “dark side” in leaders • Jesus’ four-part leadership development process • Why God tests leaders before releasing them • The hallmarks of a leader shaped by the Spirit You are not behind. You are being formed. Trust the Architect.
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    41 分
  • The Multiplier Effect: A Blueprint for Developing Leaders

    The Multiplier Effect: A Blueprint for Developing Leaders
    2025/11/05
    Too many leaders rise without ever reproducing themselves. The real test of leadership is not what you build, it is who you build. In this powerful episode, Bruce Ritter and Charles Russell unpack a complete, biblical, and practical blueprint for multiplying leaders. You will learn why leadership development is not optional, how Jesus modeled it, and what it takes to build a culture where leaders grow, thrive, and multiply. We explore: • Why organizations do not have a leadership shortage, they have a development shortage • The biblical definition of Christian leadership • How Jesus recruited, selected, trained, and deployed leaders • The heart issues that keep leaders from empowering others • How to build a leadership culture that outlasts you If you want to stop doing ministry alone, break bottlenecks, and leave a kingdom legacy, this episode is for you.
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    33 分
  • Vision That Comes from God

    Vision That Comes from God
    2025/11/03
    Lead from Revelation, not Ambition. In this episode, we break down how spiritual leaders receive vision, not manufacture it. Vision is not ambition. Vision is revelation. When God speaks, we listen and obey. In this episode you will learn: • Why human-driven vision leads to burnout and confusion • The 8 counterfeit sources of “vision” leaders must avoid • How God actually reveals vision to His people • The rhythms leaders must build to hear God clearly • How to communicate vision without hype or manipulation • How to help your people hear God for themselves If you are a pastor, founder, CEO, entrepreneur, team leader, or church planter… this conversation matters.
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    35 分