First, Love Your Congregation Where They Are

Dennis Shaw offers a short reflection on a guiding principle and is the start of a series on more personal observations on church leadership. The session is a reflective leadership discussion, centered on a core guiding principle: love your congregation where they are. The discussion challenges the notion of “fixing” a congregation, emphasizes the plurality of community, trust-building, and leadership as presence and listening rather than control. Dennis can be reached at dennis at mantuan dot org (for the Apple users) or HERE for others. Smile. Richard Rohr website is HERE and is excellent. There is a daily meditation available and the comments on this podcast were drawn from the meditation for August 25, 2025. Dennis apologizes for having "been away" but he is back. The podcast is still a work in progress. Peace.

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First, Love Your Congregation Where They Are is an episode from Various Thoughts from Dennis Shaw by Dennis Shaw.

This episode is 12:52 long.

This episode was published on Aug 25, 2025.

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