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. He is a writer, editor, and speaker living in beautiful Southern Oregon. Dave is a lover of Christ, His people, the Church, and sound theology. He serves as the Executive Director of Servants of Grace Ministries, the Executive Editor of Theology for Life Magazine, the Host and Producer of Equipping You in Grace Podcast, and is a contributor to and producer of Contending for the Word. He is the author of The Word Explored: The Problem of Biblical Illiteracy and What To Do About It (House to House, 2021), The Word Matters: Defending Biblical Authority Against the Spirit of the Age (G3 Press, 2022), and Contentment: The Journey of a Lifetime (Theology for Life, 2024). You can find him on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, or read his newsletter. Dave loves to spend time with his wife, going to movies, eating at a nice restaurant, or going out for a round of golf with a good friend. He is also a voracious reader, in particular of Reformed theology, and the Puritans. You will often find him when he’s not busy with ministry reading a pile of the latest books from a wide variety of Christian publishers. Dave received his M.A.R. and M.Div through Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary.
