{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpodcast.edstetzer.com%2Fepisodes%2Fleonce-crump-jr-church-culture-eats-vision-tIFl5YuR","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Léonce Crump Jr: Church Culture Eats Vision","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/7c8e14e6-69fa-45b7-ad44-531ec8f8bb9c/59d00c17-853a-4f93-a48f-38ea04e277cd/cropped_1792518517114.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"Léonce B. Crump Jr. argues that pastors lead through cultural upheaval by choosing the hard things they avoid, starting with rest.\n\nCrump describes leading an Atlanta church through the COVID shutdown, when attendance fell from more than 1,000 to under 150 and later returned to more than 1,000. What rebuilt his capacity to lead? A regular Sabbath, a local community, and a coach, a counselor and a pastor of his own. He argues that leaders need a place to speak without consequence, a space that shrinks as profile rises. Crump notes that many turn trauma into fuel for success without actually healing, and that the hard things pastors avoid, from rest to difficult conversations, are what build the toughness the work requires. \n\nLéonce B. Crump Jr. is co-founder of United Church in Atlanta, which began as Renovation Church in 2008, and the author of The Resilience Factor and Renovate. He recently finished a doctorate in leadership."}