Jonathan Wiggins on Walking with Lions
The Pastors Collective
Jonathan Wiggins is back! On this episode of the podcast, he and Greg Surratt catch up on what’s happening with the Pastors Collective and The Retreat at Church Creek. They also talk about Jonathan’s new book, Walking with Lions: How to Find True Courage and Enduring Strength Through God-Honoring Relationships, a book about the need for deep and intentional friendships. The reality is that leaders who try to lead alone… don’t lead for long. Jonathan talks about the need for both authenticity and attachment, and the need to be both deeply loved and deeply knowAs leaders, isolation is...
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Ed Stetzer on What's Next for the Church
The Pastors Collective
Join Pastor Greg Surratt for a fun, fascinating, and wide-ranging conversation with Dr. Ed Stetzer. Their friendship spans two decades, collaborating on mission, church planting, and evangelism. In this conversation, they’ll cover pastoring in our political climate, post-pandemic opportunities for the church, and more. While there’s a pervasive sense that our current situation is unprecedented, in reality, the church has been here before. What happened in 1968 – a time of civil unrest and a pandemic known as The Hong Kong Flu – reveals a lot about what might be ahead for us....
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Sharon Hodde Miller on Calling and Leading
The Pastors Collective
Many pastors are wrestling with questions about women’s ordination. The question has pressed on minds even more urgently since Easter, when Saddleback Church ordained three women as pastors. On today’s podcast, Greg Surratt sits down with Sharon Hodde Miller to talk about her own journey into ministry, particularly about discovering her teaching gifts and growing into openness about serving as a pastor. Sharon has an MDiv from Duke Divinity and a PhD from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, where she studied issues of women and calling. She’s also the author of two books, Free of Me:...
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John Eldredge on Manhood in a Pandemic Year
The Pastors Collective
Join author John Eldredge and Greg Surratt for an in-depth conversation about manhood in a pandemic year, how churches can serve men, and the need for brotherhood.
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David French on Polarization and Religious Liberty
The Pastors Collective
David French joins Greg Surratt to talk about the state of evangelicals in politics, national polarization, and the good news about religious liberty in the United States.
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Jonathan Wiggins
The Pastors Collective
Jonathan Wiggins is the pastor of Rez Church in Loveland, Colorado. He experienced leadership as a difficult and lonely road. But God reached Jonathan just in time.
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Reflecting on Grief and Healing with Amie Patrick
The Pastors Collective
On this episode of the podcast, Amie Patrick joins Pastor Greg Surratt and Mike Cosper to reflect on the six months that have passed since Darrin Patrick, co-founder of The Pastors Collective, took his own life.
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Remembering Darrin Patrick
The Pastors Collective
What can we learn from the loss of our friend?
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Kids in a Fishbowl
The Pastors Collective
Pastor Greg and Pastor Darrin talk about life for a pastor’s kid on this episode. Everyone has their eyes on the pastor’s kids. They grow up in a fishbowl uncertain about how they should act and behave. It’s hard for them to just be who they are.
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Pastors Need Friends Too
The Pastors Collective
On Today's episode, Pastor Darrin and Pastor Greg talk about the difficulty and necessity of building real friendships.
info_outlineOn this episode of The Pastor’s Collective, Greg Surratt and Darrin Patrick talk to Tim Scott, member of Seacoast Church and a U.S. Senator for the State of South Carolina. Tim Scott is the first African American to sit in both the House of Representatives and State Senate. Senator Scott talks about his desire and need for being rooted in a church in his home state of South Carolina and how he and Greg have become friends over the span of 22 years. Senator Scott talks about being pastored by Greg and being led with humility and its effect on his person and career.
The Pastors Collective is a production of Narrativo.
Credits:
Executive Produced by Greg Surratt and Darrin Patrick
Produced by Mike Cosper
Edited by Quinette Conner
Mixed by Mike Cosper
Music by Dan Phelps