Leadership in Context
303 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsLeadership in Context is a conversation on leadership in the context of the local church. Keith Tucci is the apostolic team leader of the Network of Related Pastors. He loves the church and its leaders. You will be empowered and equipped to walk in fruitful ministry as you listen to Keith as he puts leadership truths in the context of the local church.
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The Strategy of Generosity, pt1--Core Culture
June 05, 2023 04:00 - 14 minutes - 9.68 MBOne of the concepts of Kingdom finances is looking at the mission rather than the need. As we put the mission first, there is a godly contentment that comes. God does not want to raise up need-meeters; He wants to raise up givers. If you are not free to be a giver, you will never be satisfied or content. You can order Keith’s newest book, Core Culture: the Tremendous Strategy of Generosity that Launched the Church, at NRPastors.com/coreculture
The Strategy of Generosity, pt1
June 05, 2023 04:00 - 14 minutes - 9.68 MBOne of the concepts of Kingdom finances is looking at the mission rather than the need. As we put the mission first, there is a godly contentment that comes. God does not want to raise up need-meeters; He wants to raise up givers. If you are not free to be a giver, you will never be satisfied or content. You can order Keith’s newest book, Core Culture: the Tremendous Strategy of Generosity that Launched the Church, at NRPastors.com/coreculture
Keeping Your Heart
May 29, 2023 04:00 - 12 minutes - 8.64 MBYou can’t be offense-proof, but you can be offense-smart. Offense is the cheese in the trap. Don’t let the enemy pull the string. Learn to forgive quickly and move on. Be a leader who lives offense-smart.
A Healthy Heart
May 22, 2023 04:00 - 12 minutes - 8.91 MBDon’t let people’s problems become your problems. When you do this, you lose your objectivity. When you hold on to offense, you are allowing someone else’s sin to dictate the flow of your heart and ultimately your obedience to the Lord. We are in the forgiving business. The fragrance of forgiveness is what helps keep our hearts healthy.
Don’t Lose Heart
May 15, 2023 04:00 - 13 minutes - 9.03 MBYou will lose your leadership equity if you lose heart. When you are tested, you find out what you believe. We can lose heart as we look at outward circumstances. Speak what you believe, not just what you see or feel. This is how you maintain hope, how you don’t lose heart in what you are doing.
God's Prescription to Leaders
May 08, 2023 04:00 - 12 minutes - 8.56 MBThe mind of a leader is that they are accountable to God and accountable to themselves. 1 Timothy 4 outlines God’s prescription to leaders: Be in the Word, do not neglect your spiritual gifts, be inconvenienced, pay close attention to yourself, and persevere. As you do, you will ensure salvation both for yourself and for those who hear you.
Leading Yourself
May 01, 2023 04:00 - 12 minutes - 8.44 MBSelf-leadership is leading the most important person in your life—you. Show yourself an example to those who believe. A model is better than a message. Great leaders are good models in speech, conduct, love, faith, and purity. Eventually people will not hear what you say but will see what you do.
Leadership is Change
April 24, 2023 04:00 - 13 minutes - 9.02 MBWhen you are leading something, you are trying to change something in order to change someone. If you are not changing something, improving something, then you probably aren’t leading but managing. Good leaders hear direction from God, they see what it looks like, and then they show it to others.
The Value & Virtue of Hope
April 17, 2023 04:00 - 12 minutes - 8.71 MBEvery human soul needs the possibility that what they are doing is not in vain. Hope says it’s possible. Hope doesn’t just say that God loves you, but that He wants you to experience that love and walk in that love. We are ambassadors of hope. It is an honor to stir hope in someone. Be a hope spreader today.
Ukraine Update
April 10, 2023 04:00 - 13 minutes - 9.03 MBToday Keith gives a recap on his most recent trip to Ukraine. He had a team of 16 medical missionaries, 8 Romanian’s assisting in translation and trip logistics, plus a few more. The team spent time preaching, giving medical assistance to those in need, feeding over 1,000 people, and sharing the hope of the gospel. We have not forgotten the people of Ukraine; we are committed to make history into His-Story.
Responding to the Holy Spirit, pt3
April 03, 2023 04:00 - 12 minutes - 8.71 MBThe Holy Spirit dwells inside us and gives us power to overcome being led by the flesh. We should be believers living our lives based on what we believe, not on what we feel. In order to do that, we need the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit.
Responding to the Holy Spirit, pt2
March 27, 2023 04:00 - 12 minutes - 8.81 MBYou are the steward of your feelings. We have to be led by what we believe and not what we feel. There are times in life when what you are feeling doesn’t line up with the Truth. You have to choose what will you believe–feelings or Truth. You have to be led by the Holy Spirit.
Responding to the Holy Spirit, pt1
March 20, 2023 04:00 - 12 minutes - 8.63 MBJust as we have had passions for the world or our flesh to have its own way, the Holy Spirit that dwells in us has His holy passion to have His way with us. The Holy Spirit is jealous for our attention. When we humble ourselves and allow the Holy Spirit to reign in us, we will have victory over our own passion for our own way in our heart.
Truth, pt2
March 13, 2023 04:00 - 12 minutes - 8.28 MBHow does Truth work? First you are a believer, then you continue in the Word, then you are a disciple, THEN you know the Truth. The only way to truly know the Truth is through that process. When the Truth gets on the inside of you, not just around you or preached to you, then the Truth sets you free.
Truth, pt1
March 06, 2023 05:00 - 14 minutes - 10 MBTruth is absolute. Truth is not subject to change. Truth is not measured in the now; Truth is measured in eternity. Facts are accurate but are subject to change. Truth is accurate and is not subject to change. You cannot change Truth. Truth will always be true.
Jesus & Judgment, pt2
February 27, 2023 05:00 - 13 minutes - 9.46 MBWhen you make outward, subjective judgments, you diminish what Jesus did on the cross. If we don’t preach the judgment of God, there will be a lack of depth of conversion because people don’t really comprehend what Jesus did for them. Judgment and forgiveness cannot be separated.
Jesus & Judgment, pt1
February 20, 2023 05:00 - 12 minutes - 8.91 MBDoes Jesus judge people? Jesus’ mission was to not bring judgment. His mission was to break the judgment that was over us. If people don’t receive that mission, they stay under judgment. Listen to this and all episodes on most major podcasting apps and on our website https://www.nrpastors.com/podcast
The Prize of Leadership
February 13, 2023 05:00 - 12 minutes - 8.91 MBIn everything we do, there’s this one thing we should always do—forget what’s behind us and look forward. When we look forward and not behind, we can press toward the goal of the prize. If we are pressing forward, the prize is that God will always be calling us to greater things. The prize is God trusting you. The prize is peace, knowing you are obeying God.
The Pain of Leadership
February 06, 2023 05:00 - 12 minutes - 8.83 MBYou get stronger when you lift weights. If you run away from any of the pain points in leadership, you won’t get stronger in them. You will only get stronger when you press through them.
The Privilege of Leadership
January 30, 2023 05:00 - 13 minutes - 9.07 MBLeadership is ministry; it’s serving. The God of Heaven, the God that spoke the galaxies into existence, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the sender of the Holy Spirit trusts you to do great things in His Name. We need to treat that like it is a privilege all the time.
Lessons in Relational Integrity
January 23, 2023 05:00 - 13 minutes - 9.2 MBFive things to maintain relational integrity--Recognize that your own personal preferences are not Scripture. Give forgiveness to others just as freely as you have received from the Lord. Empathize with people, not their performance. Remember who people are to God. Remember who they are to you and your relationship with them.
Keeping Your Heart Clean & Clear, pt2
January 16, 2023 05:00 - 12 minutes - 8.78 MBIf we don’t process the “stuff” from people and keep our hearts soft, then we aren’t really operating out of the flow of the Holy Spirit. Scripture directs us in how to keep our heart pure with other people. Bear with one another. Forgive each other, just as the Lord forgave us. Put on love, the perfect bond of unity.
Keeping Your Heart Clean & Clear, pt1
January 09, 2023 05:00 - 13 minutes - 9.41 MBForgiveness is not intellectual. It is an opening of our spirit, allowing the Holy Spirit to wash through us and out to others the same forgiveness that we so desperately depend on. One of the greatest things that has to happen in leaders is the ability to maintain a clean heart by really forgiving people and releasing them from their offenses.
Spiritual Planning, pt3
January 02, 2023 05:00 - 13 minutes - 9.29 MBThe evidence of effective leadership is that people know the next step. Spiritual planning does not lack faith; it is a testament to your faith. You are not waiting for something to happen. You are allowing God to instigate you to cause something to happen. What is your plan for the things you say are important to you?
Spiritual Planning, pt2
December 26, 2022 05:00 - 13 minutes - 9.29 MBA lot of people never become the steward of their own life because their thinking is stuck in a victim mentality. A lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people. A planner says, “What am I going to do with what I have?” At some point, you will give an account for the things the Lord has given you.
Spiritual Planning, pt1
December 19, 2022 05:00 - 13 minutes - 9.14 MBYou will never be prosperous or free in your soul if you are jealous of others or compare yourself to others.
The Incarnation
December 12, 2022 05:00 - 12 minutes - 8.51 MBJesus came in the flesh. He humbled Himself and took on the form of a man. The Spirit of God lives in you. You are a model of Christ, an example of Christ. You have a purpose. God wants to use you to touch this world as the representation of Christ.
Getting Better, pt5
December 05, 2022 05:00 - 14 minutes - 9.68 MBWhat drives your life–problems or purpose? The 80/20 Rule is that 80% of the effort from ministry teams is spent taking care of needs and not moving the vision forward. When a leader can begin to tilt that seesaw, then you have exponential growth in leaders. Therefore, you can meet more needs.
Getting Better, pt4
November 28, 2022 05:00 - 13 minutes - 9.24 MBLeaders set goals by defining where they want to go. Goals are not just about productivity. They are about clarity of direction. If the destination is clear, you are more apt to fight through (and win) whatever happens along the way. If you aren’t sure about the destination, there will be a hesitancy to give it your all. If you see a group of people who have gifts but they aren’t giving their all, then the destination isn’t clear.
Getting Better, pt3
November 21, 2022 05:00 - 12 minutes - 8.56 MBAre we leading people or just ministering to people? Ministering to them is helping them get whole and self-governed. That is a key part of discipleship. Often ministry leaders spend 75% of their time doing ministry and not leading. As a result, they have fewer leaders and more needs. Even if they grow from your ministry, they aren’t able to multiply.
Getting Better, pt2
November 14, 2022 05:00 - 12 minutes - 8.3 MBOften we look for people who can help us do a certain thing rather than looking for someone to help us be a certain kind of person. Having someone in your life who will help you be a better person will, in turn, help you do better. Who is that someone in your life that you have given permission to drill down on you, even when you don’t like it?
Getting Better, pt1
November 07, 2022 05:00 - 12 minutes - 8.85 MBHow do you get better? Change the way you prepare. Practice. Practice involves attitude and aptitude. If you don’t have a desire to get better, you are going to have a bad attitude about practicing. Practice helps our aptitude. We keep getting better, and that becomes the culture.
Getting Better
November 07, 2022 05:00 - 12 minutes - 8.85 MBHow do you get better? Change the way you prepare. Practice. Practice involves attitude and aptitude. If you don’t have a desire to get better, you are going to have a bad attitude about practicing. Practice helps our aptitude. We keep getting better, and that becomes the culture.
How God Governs and Grows, pt2
October 31, 2022 04:00 - 14 minutes - 10.2 MBWe all have to do things that we are not called to do so that we can do the things we are called to do. God placed man in the garden to cultivate it and keep it. He placed him there to work. Our work should be a reflection of our worship. Work is not a necessary evil. Work is a divine assignment. If you don’t do it in the workplace, you won’t do it in the ministry.
How God Governs & Grows, pt1
October 24, 2022 04:00 - 12 minutes - 8.88 MBIf you don’t have a plant, you can’t have fruit. If you haven’t planted, then nothing will sprout. Before God plants something, He already has a plan so that when He puts that plant in the ground, it will yield fruit. Listen to more episodes of Leadership in Context HERE.
Show and Tell, pt3
October 17, 2022 04:00 - 12 minutes - 8.51 MBPeople walk out what they really believe. When we see people do things, what they are doing is manifesting what they really believe. We walk out not what we have said “amen” to, but what we believe deep down. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE.
Show and Tell, pt2
October 10, 2022 04:00 - 12 minutes - 8.37 MBAs a leader, don’t apologize for calling people up to their holy calling. God wants us to be a disciple and be a disciple maker because we are called with a holy calling. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE.
Show and Tell, pt1
October 03, 2022 04:00 - 12 minutes - 8.44 MB2 Timothy 2:2, “The things which you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, entrust these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.” Discipleship is not just a classroom. Discipleship is when you share your life. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE.
Increase Capacity, pt3
September 26, 2022 04:00 - 12 minutes - 8.95 MBIncrease your capacity with your convictions, competency, curiosity, and connection. Convictions override feelings. Increasing your competency will increase your capacity. Curiosity is part of a learning venue. And connection multiplies your capacity. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE.
Increase Capacity, pt2
September 19, 2022 04:00 - 12 minutes - 8.61 MBIf you are going to increase your capacity, you have to take advantage of what you already have. People tend to complain about what they don’t have, but they don’t fill up what they do have. The greatest mark of a leader is that a leader leads himself. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE.
Increase Capacity, pt1
September 12, 2022 04:00 - 13 minutes - 9.32 MBCapacity is what you can take hold of, what you can handle. Increasing your capacity doesn’t mean you have to get a new talent. It means you have to use the talents you have more effectively. For leaders, the key way to drill down is learning the power of “yes” and “no.” If you say no to the right things, you’ll be able to say yes to the right things—that increases your capacity. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE.
Vision Considerations, pt3
September 05, 2022 04:00 - 11 minutes - 7.98 MBVision ownership is the root of how you breed vision. Great vision bearers are not necessarily dynamic personalities, but they have a dynamic plan and invite people to go there with them. In vision ownership, you have to be saturated with the vision yourself. It has to get down inside of you. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE.
Vision Considerations, pt2
August 29, 2022 04:00 - 13 minutes - 9.05 MBThe Church is described in Scripture as a body. We have many parts, and those parts are required to work together. When those parts work together, we have health. When those parts do not work together, we have dis-ease. Vision integration is vital to all of the parts working together. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE.
Vision Considerations, pt1
August 22, 2022 04:00 - 14 minutes - 9.66 MBThe clearer, more obvious, easier it is to grasp, the better chance you have of your vision coming to pass. It is easier to increase a vision than it is to get somewhere and have to shrink vision. Vision used to never be talked about, and now it is talked about all the time. But sometimes when you talk about things a lot, you don’t define things clearly and everyone leaves the room with their own definition. Vision is your preferred future. It is your destination. Show notes (posted every Tu...
How to Endure, pt2
August 15, 2022 04:00 - 11 minutes - 8.05 MBWhen in a season where you have to endure, identify what the enemy is trying to take, and fight back, refuse to be separated, do not neglect your commitments and patterns, and lastly, get refreshed and stay refreshed. This is how you plow your way through the land mines that are happening around you. God wants you to endure. He doesn’t want you to just make it through. He wants you to be prosperous and effective. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE.
How to Endure, pt1
August 08, 2022 04:00 - 12 minutes - 8.93 MBEndurance is a part of life. Endurance is a mark of a disciple, a follower of Jesus Christ. To endure, we need to remember that trials are just for a season, every test is a faith test, endurance is not passive, and keep our eyes on the prize of eternity. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE.
Stewards of the Mystery, pt2
August 01, 2022 04:00 - 12 minutes - 8.74 MBGod wants to reveal the mystery of Christ to us. We ought to be gospel detectives that unveil the mystery of God. Our ministry is revealing the mystery of Christ. Let us be regarded as people who are great stewards of the mystery of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE.
Stewards of the Mystery, pt1
July 25, 2022 04:00 - 13 minutes - 9.1 MBThe word “mystery” appears 25 times in the New Testament. 21 of those times, it means the same thing and refers to the same thing. A mystery is something you want people to investigate so they can find out. There is a great mystery that God wants us to understand. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE.
Pro-Life, pt3
July 18, 2022 04:00 - 12 minutes - 8.42 MBThere is a lot of screaming from the liberals declaring that they believe the science. Reality is, they believe the theory, not actual facts. There really is a definite science that is consistent with fetal development. Science says that the origin of something is that something. Does life start at conception? Everything starts at its conception point. Conception means the beginning of something. So of course, life begins at conception. When else could it start? After conception? No, at conc...
Pro-Life, pt2
July 11, 2022 04:00 - 13 minutes - 9.63 MBIt is amazing the liberals’ disconnect with history and lack of understanding of what Roe v. Wade is and was. Abortion did not start in America when Roe v. Wade law was made in the Supreme Court in 1973. There were 7 states that completely outlawed abortion before 1973. There were about 6 states that had no restriction on abortion—which is what Roe v. Wade did. What Roe v. Wade did was make abortion at any time, for any reason (or no reason at all), legal. It was the mother’s complete right....