Host: Steve Macchia, Guest: Gordon MacDonald
“Your number one priority in the Lord’s work is your family.” –Gordon MacDonald
“The View from Eighty” is a synopsis of Gordon MacDonald’s discernment today. What are the 15 things I’ve observed in myself and others, that make you either a success or failure in life and ministry, fulfilling all that God invites? In this episode we cover the first 7 items:
- Prioritize the most significant people in your world;
- Never (ever!) stop growing; stay responsive to fresh ways and ideas that sustain your physical and mental health; ask great questions; enrich your wisdom and spiritual life;
- Be more a priest and less a preacher; bless people and don’t bully them;
- The time will come when you will have to relinquish titles and privileges and slip into obscurity;
- Anticipate those occasions when you may suffer, fail, doubt, face conflict, and experience loss;
- Be trustworthy and reliable, a person who keeps his/her word; don’t make promises you can’t keep; and
- Be a spiritual father/mother to teachable people who may someday inherit your responsibilities.
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Steve Macchia (Podcast Host)
Founder and President of Leadership Transformations
Steve is the author of The Discerning Life, Becoming a Healthy Church, Broken and Whole, Crafting a Rule of Life and several other titles. Steve has over 40 years in ministry and two postgraduate degrees from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.
Gordon Macdonald (Season Eighteen Episode 5 & 6 Guest)
Author and Chancellor of Denver Seminary
For nearly 60 years, Gordon Macdonald has served as a pastor, author, and organizational leader. He is formerly the Chancellor and previously the President of Denver Seminary, as well as Pastor Emeritus of Grace Chapel in Lexington, Massachusetts where he was a pastor for over 40 years. He has written 20 books and co-authored additional titles with his wife Gail, including Ordering Your Private World, which won the Gold Medallion and the Platinum Awards from the Evangelical Christian Publishing Association. Gordon and Gail have two children and five grandchildren.
