Elevate: Equipping the Whole Church Staff for Gospel Impact
Elevate: Equipping the Whole Church Staff for Gospel Impact
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Are you ready to take your ministry to the next level? Follow along the Elevate Podcast, as we share how this new resource will equip and encourage church leaders at every stage. Whether you’re a seasoned pastor or a growing team member, the Elevate Podcast is designed to help you sharpen your vision, strengthen your staff, and deepen your Gospel impact.
Hosted by ministers from Brentwood Baptist Church, this podcast brings you honest conversations, practical tools, and insights from leaders who understand the joys and challenges of ministry. With a focus on worship, dis
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Key themes include church growth, burnout management, worship leadership, and discipleship. Episodes explore topics such as the multiplication mindset in church plants and revitalizations, practical strategies for avoiding ministry burnout, and the importance of relational leadership in worship contexts.
Are you ready to take your ministry to the next level? Follow the Brentwood Baptist Leadership Podcast, as we share how this new resource will equip and encourage church leaders at every stage. Whether you’re a seasoned pastor or a growing team member, this podcast is designed to help you sharpen your vision, strengthen your staff, and deepen your Gospel impact.
Hosted by ministers from Brentwood Baptist Church, this podcast brings you honest conversations, practical tools, and insights from leaders who understand the joys and challenges of ministry.
Our Road to Elevate series continues with a conversation every pastor, stewardship leader, and ministry director needs to hear.
Darrel Girardier sits down with Ken Schafer, Brentwood Baptist's stewardship minister, to discuss what it takes to build a culture of generosity, previewing one of the breakout sessions at the Elevate Church Conference on September 21 and 22, 2026.
Ken starts by separating two words most of us use interchangeably: giving and generosity. From there, he and Darrel work through why money conversations create friction in churches, why a met budget can still hide an unhealthy congregation, and the specific numbers Ken tells every church leader to go find in their own giving data. They close by rethinking a familiar narrative about generational giving and unpacking the difference between giving to a church and giving from worship.
In this episode, you'll learn:
– The key difference between giving and generosity, and why treating them as interchangeable holds churches back: giving is a transaction, and generosity is a condition of the heart
– Why healthy churches treat generosity as part of holistic spiritual development, right alongside Bible study, worship, and prayer, instead of putting it in a lane by itself
– Why ”our budget is being met” almost never means a church has a healthy culture of generosity
– The difference between average giving and median giving, and why median is the more honest, and often more sobering, number for a church to know
– The difference between giving to a church and giving from worship, and why that shift changes how a church should talk about money altogether
– And more…
Meet the Guests
Ken Schafer is the Stewardship Minister at Brentwood Baptist, where he helps individuals and the congregation grow into a biblical view of generosity as an act of worship, not just a line in the budget.
Darrel Girardier is the Executive Director of Ministry Resources at Brentwood Baptist, where he oversees the team and resources that help equip pastors and ministry leaders across the church.
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