Ministry and Leadership with Gregg Matte
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Ministry and Leadership with Gregg Matte

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 21, 202642 min
  • Interview
  • Religion

In the latest episode of Make It Simple, Matt sits down with Gregg Matte, Sr. Pastor of Houston's First Baptist Church and founder of Breakaway Ministry. Matt and Gregg discuss ministry and leadership in the second half of life, leaving a legacy as a leader, and much more. Info: Houston's First - https://www.houstonsfirst.org Breakaway Ministries - https://breakaway.org 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...

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Welcome to Make It Simple, where we take complicated issues and, with 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 Popovits, and with me on the podcast today is the one and only Greg Mott.

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Greg is the senior pastor of First Baptist Church right here in Houston, Texas. First Baptist is one of the largest and most influential churches in the state, if not the country. also the founder of Breakaway Ministries, the largest student Bible study in the

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country. And the podcast today, we're going to talk about leading in the second half of life. What does leadership look like in a ministry context as you round the corner past 50 years old and start looking to the legacy that you're going to leave behind? We'll get into that as well as insights and leadership in general, pastoral ministry, what it was like founding

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