The Vanderbloemen Leadership Podcast brings you interviews from leaders across the theological spectrum of the global Church. Our goal is to bring you thought-provoking interviews that encourage you, challenge you, and help you build, run, and keep great teams.
In today's episode of the Vanderbloemen Leadership Podcast, William talks with Rusty George, Lead Pastor of Real Life Church in Valencia, California.
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Rusty George is the Lead Pastor at Real Life Church in Southern California; a multi-site church with campuses in Canyon Country, Valencia and a large online community. Under Rusty’s lead, Real Life has become one of the fastest growing churches in America–growing by 111% in 2011 alone.
Beyond leading his church of 6,000+ members every weekend, Rusty is a global speaker, leader and teacher focusing his message on helping people find and follow Jesus. Rusty has also written several books and writes regularly on his website. His latest book is Better Together: Discover the Power of Community.
Rusty talks with William about:
- Building a church literally from the ground up
- The best way way to deal with disappointment in ministry
- Why a church leader's top priority needs to be community
- How to navigate a feeling of failure as a pastor
- The right place to entrust our value and worth
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Quotes from Rusty:
The more you pursue 'me', the less you think of 'we'.
The longer you're a pastor and the more your church begins to grow, the more of an introvert that you become.
Trust the people around you to do what they are capable of doing, and only entrust your value to Jesus.
We can't focus on keeping people rather than reaching people.