Introduction

• Grady serves as President of HOPE Network (HN).  His ministry life spans fifty years with forty years in congregational ministry in Churches of Christ in Oklahoma and Texas. While with HN he served six years as director of church resources at Oklahoma Christian.
• His formal education includes degrees from Oklahoma Christian University (Bachelor of Science in Education); Abilene Christian University (Master of Science and Doctor of Ministry). His ministry passion is healthy leaders, healthy churches rooted in the gospel and missional life.
• Hope Network
• What do you enjoy doing when you are not engaged in church work? 

Our world/culture is shifting. This is nothing new; it is inevitably a part of the nature of culture. So, as the people of God have always been forced to do, we must figure out what it means to be God’s people in our new and shifting world. Particularly in this episode, I want to focus on difficulties placed on church leaders. 

1. Lack of Leadership
   1. For many churches, particularly smaller churches which make up the majority of churches, the leadership struggle begins with a struggle to find willing, good, and qualified leaders. 
   2. What can the church begin doing to solve its leadership crisis?
      
2. Changing Congregation Makeup 
   1. As times change, so does the makeup and thinking process of our congregations. It seems to me that this is particularly true regarding the church’s relationship to younger generations. 
   2. Speak a little to the changing makeup of congregations and how church leaders can better engage with their congregation.
      
3. Leadership Communication
   1. Sometimes a church’s leadership struggle is not to communicate with the congregation but to communicate with each other.
   2. Provide us with some practical advice for leadership communication. 

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