Developing Leaders with Tim Ahlman
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Developing Leaders with Tim Ahlman

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 4, 202637 min

In this episode Matt chats with Rev. Dr. Tim Ahlman about raising up leaders in the local church, the battle over "who can lead" in the LCMS, and much more. Links: Unite Leadership Collective: https://www.uniteleadership.org/ VoxCon 2027: https://www.gotovox.com/ Support the show For more information on Make It Simple Ministries, head to https://makeitsimple.org/ To support Make It Simple, head here: Support the show Buy your copy of Junk Drawer Jesus wherever books are sold. ...

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Welcome to Make It Simple, where we take complicated issues and, for the help of a friend, break them down into ideas we can understand, truths we can apply, and questions worth pondering. I'm your host, Matt Popovitz, and with me on the show today is Reverend Dr. Tim Allman. Tim is an LCMS pastor, a speaker, writer, and an advocate for local church leadership

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development through the Unite Leadership Collective. And that's what we're going to be talking about today, leadership development in the local church. Now, just a heads up, our conversation today will be a bit of inside baseball for those

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who are a part of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, which is the denomination that I pastor in and that Tim pastors in. But even so, there's a lot of good that you can take away if you're not a part of our church body about the necessity of leadership development in the local church and some

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