The Healthy Church Staff Podcast
We're all about helping create a healthy, positive, and spiritually positive environment for church staff members and leadership teams.
Episodes
652 episodes
When Staff Live Different Values Than the Church Preaches
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff podcast, Todd Rhoades discusses the critical issue of the gap between a church's stated values and the actual lived values by its staff. He emphasizes the importance of alignment between these values to ...
What’s Actually Killing the Church: A 250-Year Autopsy
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, Todd Rhoades discusses the evolving challenges and perceived 'deaths' of the church from 1776 to today. Despite changes in church attendance and involvement over the centuries, the church con...
Stop Defaulting to 'Where'd You Get Your mDiv"
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff podcast, the focus is on reevaluating church hiring practices that overly prioritize seminary degrees over practical ministry experience. The discussion highlights how relying too much on theological ...
The Ministry Training Pipeline Is About to Change Forever
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, Todd Rhoades discusses the shifting landscape of ministry hiring practices. He presents a growing challenge in reconciling the high costs of seminary education with stagnant ministry salaries an...
The Financial Reality Check Your Church Board Needs
In this episode, Todd Rhoades discusses the challenges of aligning seminary education requirements with realistic compensation in church staffing. He highlights the financial burdens placed on new hires due to the cost of theological education and...
Why Churches Want Seminary Training But Won't Pay Seminary Prices
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, Todd Rhoades discusses the challenges churches face when hiring qualified ministry leaders with inadequate compensation. He highlights the financial burdens faced by seminary graduates and sugge...
When Your Dream Candidate Can't Afford to Say Yes
The podcast episode discusses how churches often face a disconnect between their compensation offerings and the financial needs of ideal candidates. It emphasizes the importance of addressing budget constraints transparently and maintaining relati...
The Student Debt Conversation You're Not Having with Ministry Candidates
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, Todd Rhoades discusses the critical importance of having transparent financial discussions with potential church staff hires, especially concerning student debt. The failure to address financial...
God Will Provide Is Not a Financial Plan
The Healthy Church Staff Podcast discusses the importance of financial planning for ministry leaders. Host Todd Rhoades highlights the misconception that relying solely on faith without financial awareness is adequate. He stresses the need for hon...
The False Urgency Epidemic on Church Staff
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, Todd Rhoades addresses the issue of false urgency within church environments, where every task is treated as an immediate necessity. He discusses the detrimental effects of manufactured crises o...
The Perseverance Paradox: When Grit Becomes Gridlock
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff podcast, host Todd Rhoades discusses the distinction between biblical perseverance and stubborn resistance within church staff dynamics. He emphasizes the importance of staying mission-focused while b...
Ministry Minimum Wage: The Hidden Cost of Underpaying Church Staff
This podcast episode, hosted by Todd Rhoades, addresses the issue of underpaying ministry staff and how it impacts churches negatively. It highlights the cycle of attracting underqualified candidates due to low salaries, resulting in increased ...
Ministry PTSD: Leading Staff Who've Been Hurt by the Church
This podcast episode explores the concept of 'Ministry PTSD,' a condition seen in church staff members who carry emotional wounds from past negative experiences in ministry environments. The host, Todd Rhoades, discusses how these invisible wou...
The Faithful Few: The Pastor's Summer Advantage You're Missing
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, Todd Rhoades encourages church staff to see the summer 'slump' as a prime opportunity to build and strengthen relationships with the most committed members of their congregation. Instead of v...
The Faithful Few: Programming for Presence, Not Attendance
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, Todd Rhoades discusses the common issue of reduced church attendance during the summer months, often referred to as the 'summer slump'. Rather than focusing on retaining those who are absent,...
The Faithful Few: Your Most Committed People Are Ready for More
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, Todd Rhoades discusses the concept of a 'summer slump' in ministry, where volunteer attendance drops during June and July. However, he emphasizes that summer also reveals those who are truly ...
The Faithful Few: Why Smaller Groups Create Deeper Disciples
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, host Todd Rhoades discusses the positive potential of smaller group sizes in church settings, especially during the summer months. He challenges the common perception that larger groups equat...
The Faithful Few: Stop Apologizing for Summer Ministry
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff podcast, Todd Rhoades discusses how church leaders often apologize for lower summer attendance, viewing it as a negative rather than seeing the committed attendees as valuable. He suggests shifting th...
When Your Staff Member Becomes the Church Influencer
This episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast addresses the challenges and dynamics that arise when a church staff member gains significant influence or a personal platform, particularly through social media. Host Todd Rhoades explores the impl...
When Your Church Staff Becomes a Refugee Camp
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, Todd Rhoades discusses how churches often become centers for healing trauma rather than fulfilling their mission. He emphasizes the importance of hiring individuals who have processed their pain...
The Innovation Graveyard: Why Your Great Ideas Keep Dying at the Same Spot
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, Todd Rhoades discusses the systemic barriers in churches that stifle innovation and offers strategies to overcome them. • Churches often have an invisible system that stifles innovation, not ...
Why Your Church Staff Needs a Failure Resume
This episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, hosted by Todd Rhoades, discusses the importance of embracing failure to foster innovation and growth within church staff cultures. By normalizing failure, teams can learn effectively and create a ...
The Monday Morning Dread: When the Weekend Ministry Success Doesn't Feel Great on Monday Morning
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, co-host Todd Rhoades addresses the 'success trap' ministers often face: the disconnection between ministry success and personal job fulfillment. He discusses the emotional discrepancy from th...
When Your Elder Board Micromanages Your Ministry Staff
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, host Todd Rhoades discusses the challenges of micromanagement by church boards and provides strategies for establishing healthy boundaries between church staff and boards. He emphasizes the impo...
Why Your Worship Pastor and Senior Pastor Keep Clashing
In this episode of the Healthy Church Staff Podcast, Todd Rhoades discusses the common issue of communication gaps between creative and strategic church staff members. He emphasizes the importance of understanding different brain types—creative ve...