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Saturate Podcast

June 27, 2018

Episode 045: Leading and Forming a Team Culture

In this episode of the Saturate Podcast, Brad Watson talks with Duke Revard about building teams, recruiting leaders, and creating a culture based on the gospel instead of guilt, shame, and fear. They also discuss the NBA finals and LeBron…

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Life IssuesResources

May 28, 2018

Top 3 Resources to Maximize Your Summer

It's officially summer! School is wrapping up, the days are getting longer, and your days and weekends are likely getting packed with exciting events, projects, camps, and vacations. While many of your summer days might already be spoken for, the…

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CoachingSaturate Podcast

March 14, 2018

Episode 037: The Power of Missional Community Leader Coaching

In this episode of the Saturate Podcast, Brad Watson and David Achata talk about the the powerful tool of coaching for leaders and churches. Then, they dive into a real scenario as David coaches Brad as he would any leader.…

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Saturate Podcast

March 7, 2018

Episode 036: Leading a Missional Community Without “Superstar” Christians

In this episode of the Saturate Podcast, Brad Watson talks with Jared Pickney about how to lead a missional community that has people with varying levels of belief, maturity, and buy-in.    

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LeadershipSaturate Podcast

February 21, 2018

Episode 034: How to Intentionally Develop Leaders

In this episode of the Saturate Podcast, Brad Watson talks with Duke Revard, the director of the Soma Family of Churches, about the implications and importance of developing leaders at every level and why we struggle to do that in…

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Missional CommunitySaturate Podcast

November 15, 2017

Episode 025: What Missional Community Do

In this episode of the Saturate Podcast, Brad Watson and Jared Pickney talk about the often overlooked questions...

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ChurchLeadershipMissional CommunityPastoringTransitioning

October 26, 2017

Institutionalizing the Change

  If there is one thing I have learned in the transition to missional community, it is “practice the art of assuming nothing”.  Never assume that you, your team, your leaders, or your church have it figured out! To make…

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ChurchLeadershipMissional CommunityPastoringTransitioning

October 19, 2017

Building on the Change

  Catch part eight of this series here. More important than desiring the fruit of missional ministry is a core conviction that you can’t do ministry another way. At a certain point in the transition to missional communities, you have executed…

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ChurchEveryday RhythmsLeadershipMissionMissional CommunityPastoringTransitioning

October 12, 2017

Celebrating Wins

  Catch part seven of this series here.  If you simply report out percentages without stories attached, it is far too easy to forget that you are leading and discipling real people with real problems and the real Jesus is…

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ChurchLeadershipResourcesSaturate Podcast

October 10, 2017

Key Audio Training Now Available

Many of you have been telling us for a while how much you would love to have access to the audio of our training videos. You asked, and we listened.

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ChurchLeadershipMissional CommunityPastoringTransitioning

October 5, 2017

Empowering Others to Act

  Catch part six of this series here! One of the greatest barriers to the vision becoming reality is leaders not providing a simple, understandable way to live out the vision for missional communities. If you follow these steps and…

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ChurchLeadershipMissional CommunityMissionaryPastoringTransitioning

September 28, 2017

Communicating the Vision for Missional Communities

  Catch part five of this series here. Simply because everyone can articulate the same core values does not mean the vision has taken hold. After working hard to craft a vision for missional communities, you’ve got to start thinking about…

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Saturate Podcast

September 27, 2017

Episode 019: How Do You Choose a Common Mission

In this episode of The Saturate Podcast, Brad Watson and Jared Pickney dive into the challenges of choosing a common mission. But they also offer the hope of stories, key principles, and essential components to actually share mission. See these…

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ChurchLeadershipMissional CommunityMissionaryPastoringTransitioning

September 21, 2017

Crafting a Vision for Missional Communities

  Catch part four of this series here. It isn’t just about having a catchy phrase and some branding but having a fully-formed understanding of why you are making a transition and communicating it in a variety of different ways…

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Saturate Podcast

September 20, 2017

Episode 018: What is a Missional Community Leader

In this episode of The Saturate Podcast, Brad Watson and Jared Pickney discuss the role of leadership, how you know if you're called to be a leader, what a leader does, and why the idea of leadership is so challenging…

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ChurchLeadershipMissional CommunityMissionaryPastoringTransitioning

September 14, 2017

Forming a Strategic Team to Lead Transition

  Catch part two and part three of the series. This team you build needs to be more captivated that your church would become something, rather than simply excited about implementing a new strategy! After you have created a sense of urgency and convinced…

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ChurchLeadershipMissional CommunityMissionaryPastoringTransitioning

September 7, 2017

Creating a Sense of Urgency

Catch part one and part two of the series. What is most important is open, honest and convincing dialogue about what is true from the Scriptures and where your church simply doesn’t match up. For change to happen, it helps…

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ChurchCommunityDiscipleshipEveryday RhythmsFamilyGospelHoly SpiritKidsLeadershipMissionMissional CommunityMissionaryPastoringPrayerResourcesServantSpiritual Growth

September 4, 2017

Tools for The Upcoming Season

It's Labor Day, which means summer officially comes to a close, and we all gear up for the "normal" life that fall brings. The summer has been really busy for us, too, and we want to highlight a few of…

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ChurchCommunityLeadershipPastoringTransitioning

August 31, 2017

Two Ways to Transition

Catch part one in the series HERE. Generally speaking, if you are considering a transition to missional communities in an existing church, there are two routes you can go: top down or bottom up. Each has their own pros and…

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DiscipleshipHoly SpiritMissional CommunityPastoringSpiritual Growth

August 29, 2017

Creating an Environment for Discipleship

In the Story, we watch as Jesus makes disciples, turning fishermen into fishers of men. Then before He ascends into heaven, He gives them the mission to also make disciples who obey His commands. Then over and over in Acts…

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ChurchDiscipleshipLeadershipMissionMissional CommunityMissionaryPastoringTransitioning

August 24, 2017

Transitioning Your Church to Missional Communities

  The vision of The Austin Stone has always been “to be a New Testament Church, existing for the supremacy of the name and purpose of Jesus Christ.” Early on as a church, we were committed to the authority of the Bible…

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CommunityDiscipleshipFamilyGospel ShepherdingHoly SpiritIdentityLeadershipMissional CommunityMissionaryPastoringServantSpiritual Growth

August 22, 2017

Spirit Doctor

  Leaders, please set aside your objective plans for a moment. Helping people address their inner lives is probably the most important thing you’ll ever do. Many years ago I took my first trip to West Africa. On one of…

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ChurchDiscipleshipLeadershipMissional CommunityPastoringSpiritual GrowthTransitioning

August 17, 2017

What’s a Road Map for Transforming Small Groups?

I understand the vision, and I understand the principles of missional communities. I’m bought in! But what is my scope and sequence I need to work through to transition our small groups into missional communities? With so many resources, primers,…

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ChurchDiscipleshipLeadershipPastoringSpiritual Growth

August 15, 2017

Walk in a Redeemed Life of Leadership

  Not only did we repent and believe the gospel publicly, we also walked in redemption and healing. We set our sights on learning from Jesus what it meant to follow Him while serving His church. As pastors, we must…

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CoachingDiscipleshipLeadership

August 8, 2017

Glory Passers

Guest post by Ryan Latour for Saturate A few Saturdays ago I was standing on the sidelines, coaching our U10 soccer team. Standing is probably the wrong word; I was moving up and down the sidelines encouraging and instructing our…

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ChurchDiscipleshipIdentityLeadershipMissional CommunityPastoringSpiritual Growth

August 3, 2017

Why Do Communities on Mission Fail?

  If a missional community leader is not abiding in Jesus, no amount of preparation or equipping can sustain them in leadership. What is the difference between a missional community (MC) that makes it and a missional community (MC) that…

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CoachingDiscipleshipLeadershipPastoring

July 27, 2017

Learning to Coach

  Guest post by Phil Whittall for Saturate I can’t quite remember when I first came across coaching as a leadership concept, but it has been one of those ideas that has slowly invaded my thinking. Last year I read…

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ChurchDiscipleshipLeadershipPastoringSpiritual Growth

July 25, 2017

Leading through Repentance and Faith

  Repentance is likely something you are used to suggesting to someone in your church or something you typically do after a fight with your spouse or impatience with your children. Have you ever repented of the darkness in your…

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ChurchDiscipleshipLeadershipPastoringSpiritual Growth

July 18, 2017

We Need to Believe the Gospel for Ourselves

  Christ died for you. You are loved, and you are His son or daughter (1 John 3:1). He has empowered you with His Spirit to be His witness (Acts 1:8). He will work in you and through you as…

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ChurchLeadershipMissional CommunityPastoringTransitioning

July 11, 2017

But, How Do We Do It?

  We’re excited to share a resource that’s been many years in the making. But, How Do We Do It? comes as a result of many years of consulting with churches looking to be faithful to their mandate to make disciples…

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ChurchDiscipleshipLeadershipPastoringSpiritual Growth

July 6, 2017

We Choose to Believe Lies

  When Mirela and I loaded up our belongings and headed to the Pacific Northwest, we were filled with an incredible blend of expectation and zeal. We knew something major was happening, and God was going to let us be…

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ChurchDiscipleshipLeadershipPastoringSpiritual Growth

June 20, 2017

We Choose Exhaustion

  Throughout the years, I have come across a growing number of people on the cusp of burnout in communities and organizations across the spectrum of the gospel-centered discipleship movement. Many were close friends, few were acquaintances, and one of them…

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ChurchGospelLeadershipPrayerSpiritual Growth

June 15, 2017

When the Real Jesus Comes To Town

  In 2012 I chose to plant a church in a part of the world where every corner hosts a church building and every person has prayed the “sinners prayer.” I chose to plant in the religious south because though…

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Bible & TheologyHoly SpiritLeadershipPrayerSpiritual Growth

June 13, 2017

Relying on the Helper

  I often plead with leaders, coaches, and communities to depend on the Holy Spirit. I plead with Christians to rely on the Spirit, whom Jesus promised would be our helper. But what does that mean? With so much confusion…

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ChurchDiscipleshipLeadershipPastoringSpiritual Growth

June 6, 2017

We Choose Distraction

A distraction is something that prevents us from giving full attention to the essential thing in front of us. Our problem isn’t that we give our full attention to something other than discipleship, but that we divide our attention among many things.…

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CoachingDiscipleshipHoly SpiritLeadershipMissional CommunitySaturate PodcastSpiritual Growth

May 24, 2017

Episode 006: Why is Coaching important for Missional Communities

  On this week's episode of The Saturate Podcast, David Achata joins Brad to discuss the role of coaching: what it is, what it is not, and its role in creating healthy and effective missional communities.  

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