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Pass the Plate (opens the original)
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Church fundraising sits in a strange place. Everyone knows the money has to come from somewhere, and everyone has a story about the ask that felt wrong. Locked doors, platinum sponsor tiers, songbook ads, plaques on the wall. Jobbin and Jeswin work through the tactics, the Google review that keeps showing up under every church, and what 1 Chronicles 29 and Haggai 1 actually say about how leaders should ask and why people should give. Follow @restoringourcity for more.
The General Body Problem (opens the original)
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Every year it comes back around. The general body meeting. The nominations, the bylaws, the budget nobody agrees on, and somehow the mango pickle that ends up on someone's head. Jobbin and Jeswin sit with the meeting our community loves to dread, and the church splits, lost friendships, and quiet exits that follow it. They trace where the conflict really comes from, what Scripture actually models for resolving it, and why peace was never meant to be the absence of conflict but the presence of fl
The Conference High (opens the original)
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Massive budgets. Packed ballrooms. A spiritual high that fades by Monday morning. Are church conferences actually worth it?Jeswin is back on the pod after a brief break, fresh off PCNAK in Chicago, and he and Jobbin get honest about what these gatherings actually give us. The community. The shared culture. The anonymous questions that revealed what our people are really wrestling with. And what they get wrong too: the budgets, the politics, and the "conference high" that disappears the second re
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