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Welcome to the 129th episode of Equipping You in Grace. On today’s episode, Dave Jenkins talks Dayton Hartman about his book, Lies Pastors Believe: 7 Ways To Elevate Yourself, Subvert The Gospel, and Undermine the Church (Lexham Press, 2017).
What you’ll hear in this episode:
- Why pursuing a platform for our significance, recognition, relevance, and recognition so dangerous along with some solutions to this significant issue.
- The danger of being focused on what we have to instead of what God has said in His Word.
- The benefits of writing sermons in community.
- Guidelines for finding godly people to provide sermon feedback.
- How leaders can find their identity in Christ and not in ministry.
- How long pastors and ministry leaders should take to affirm a man as called and qualified for pastoral ministry.
- What Pastors should look for in a pastoral candidate’s life.
- How to be wise when we share our personal struggles as ministry leaders.
- How to pursue holiness as a Christian and as a ministry leader.
- How can ministry leaders cultivate a proper family/work balance in their lives.
- The importance of friendship in the Christian life and ministry.
About the Guest
Dayton Hartman is lead pastor at Redeemer Church in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. He has a Ph.D. in church and dogma history from North West University (South Africa), and serves as an adjunct professor at both Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and Columbia International University. He is the author of Church History for Modern Ministry: Why Our Past Matters for Everything We Do. Learn more at daytonhartman.com.
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Dave Jenkins is happily married to his wife, Sarah, and lives in beautiful Southern Oregon. He is a writer, editor, and speaker who loves Christ, His people, the Church, and sound theology.
Dave serves as the Executive Director of Servants of Grace Ministries and the Executive Editor of Theology for Life Magazine. He is the Host and Producer of the Equipping You in Grace Podcast and a contributor to and producer of Contending for the Word.
He is the author of The War of Worldviews: Truth, Lies, and the Battle for the Christian Mind (Theology for Life, 2026), Contentment: The Journey of a Lifetime (Theology for Life, 2024), The Word Matters: Defending Biblical Authority Against the Spirit of the Age (G3 Press, 2022), and The Word Explored: The Problem of Biblical Illiteracy and What To Do About It (House to House, 2021).
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When he is not engaged in ministry work, Dave enjoys spending time with his wife, going to movies, sharing a meal at a favorite restaurant, or playing a round of golf with friends. He is also a voracious reader, particularly of Reformed theology and the Puritans, and is often found working through a stack of new books from a wide range of Christian publishers.
Dave earned his M.A.R. and M.Div. from Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary.
