World Evangelism Podcast
The World Evangelism Podcast is a weekly program that inspires and equips listeners to take part in global evangelism. Each episode focuses on a different country, highlighting its unique needs and challenges in spreading the Gospel while using powerful Bible verses to guide prayers and actions for these nations.
The podcast covers various aspects of missionary work, including:
- Prayer for specific countries and their evangelistic needs
- Book recommendations to deepen understanding of missions
- Stories of historical missionaries who pioneered faith journeys
- Leadership and training for those called to global ministry
- Giving opportunities and financial support for missions
The show aims to ignite passion and motivate listeners to engage in world evangelism through prayer, giving, training, and going. It offers weekly challenges for both missionaries (“goers”) and supporters (“senders”), emphasizing that everyone has a role in sharing the message of Jesus Christ worldwide.
The World Evangelism Podcast seeks to empower listeners to fulfill their God-given potential in reaching the world with the Gospel by exploring these topics. Whether you are called to go or to support those who go, the podcast provides inspiration and practical guidance for making a lasting impact on the Kingdom.
Join us on this journey of inspiring missions and empowering leaders as we delve into the heart of world evangelism, shining a light on different countries and their unique needs, backed by powerful Bible verses to guide our prayers and actions.
World Evangelism Podcast
Guiding with Heart: The Power of Transparent Leadership
Can you imagine the power of leading with love and authenticity? In this episode, we unlock the secrets to training leaders by allowing them the freedom to grow. Broadcasting from vibrant Medellin, Colombia, we explore the transformative impact of transparency and vulnerability in mentorship. Discover how sharing your real self, including your weaknesses, can inspire those you guide, making you a relatable and effective mentor.
We also discuss the importance of supporting future leaders in their unique journeys without imposing our own visions on them. Whether someone aspires to be a pastor, a Sunday school teacher, or anything else, our role is to provide the guidance they seek, not to dictate their path. Learn how to respect and nurture the individual aspirations and limits of those you mentor, ensuring they realize their full potential and feel empowered in their calling.
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Well, I've been coming to you from Medellin, colombia, and I've been trying to talk to you a little bit about training men, and I thought today I would just make a couple of more comments. We discussed Having a loose rein. Don't try to control people when you train people. Leaders in training are leaders. Leaders in training are leaders. And since they're leaders in training and are already leaders, they won't do well with a tight control. So teach them and love them and tie them down, but with chains of love and not with orders and commands. And let them know the real you. Let them know you. Your weaknesses are going to help them more than your strengths, because when they see that you are so much above them, then they don't think they can. But when they see you're like them, they realize maybe God could use me. So you and I want to be transparent and open. Now, it's risky to do that. If you share your heart and share everything about you, it's risky to do that, but it's still what we want to do.
W. Austin Gardner:The next thing I'd like to share with you briefly is you can only take a person as far as they want to go. You know, and you need to kind of be uncomfortable but comfortable with that. So you'll start training some guys and you really believe you see leadership in them. You see that they may become the pastor or missionary or evangelist. But as you work with them they start dropping off Somewhere along the way. One of them will say you know, I just want to be a regular church member. Another will drop off and say I just want to be a Sunday school teacher or a deacon or whatever it is that they want to do.
W. Austin Gardner:You're not the one that calls them. You're not the one that places them. You're not the one that makes that decision. All you do is help them be all God wants them to be, and that's not your call. I don't get to decide who gets to be a preacher. I don't get to decide who's going to make it in the ministry. All I get to decide is I'll help you as much as you want me to help you, as far as you want me to help you, and I'll do everything in my power to help you be what you feel like God wants you to be.
W. Austin Gardner:So I'd like to tell you that when you're training leaders, you got to be careful to realize that you can't determine how far they go. You can only determine how much help you give them. You can't determine how they're going to respond to the help you're giving them. They'll determine how much they want to respond to that help. So help them as far as you can to do all that they can do, all that they want to do. So they will be satisfied with pastoring a church and running 50 in church and others will be satisfied being a Sunday school teacher with 10, and others will want to be a missionary or pastor of a large church and you can train. But remember your job is to be there to take them as far as they want to go. They're like children and I don't mean that in any way insulting, but you know our children have different abilities and different desires. One wants to be an artist, another wants to be a mathematician, one wants to be electronically no-transcript.