GCYM Conversations: Dr. Joe Hellerman Has Advice for Youth Pastors with Difficult Bosses

Dr. Joseph Hellerman is a professor of New Testament at Talbot School of Theology and Biola University, one of the pastor-elders at Oceanside Christian Fellowship in El Segundo, CA, and the author of, among others, Embracing Shared Ministry and When the Church Was a Family. He’s also Faris’s guest on this episode of GCYM Conversations.

As a seminary professor teaching about deep church community and the value of sharing ministry leadership, Dr. Hellerman gets a lot of students coming to him wondering what to do when they are not experiencing those things in their churches. In particular, those with difficult-to-work-for senior pastors ask him what they ought to do in their situations.

Since this is a youth ministry website, we figured that there might be a number of you experiencing similar difficulties, so Faris got Dr. Hellerman in front of a microphone to talk about the counsel he gives. The first half of the podcast consists mostly of that, after which point Faris and Dr. Hellerman explore church-as-family and shared leadership more directly.

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