Media Outreach

So it’s Friday, which means it must be time for some Monday Morning Insight.  If you are unfamiliar with Todd Rhoades, a respected friend of ours, you should spend some time on his blog.

What we love the most about his amazing blog, is how he caters his content to leadership and the church.  As pastors stretch themselves in their role as church leader, business manager, spouse, parent and counselor (and much more), all sorts of issues arise. Todd has content to cover practical solutions for engaging culture, church models and strategy and technology.

But, as a former pastor, Todd understands the wide depth of topics that need be covered for his audience.  He also has posts to cover church conflict, ministry transition, family balance and facility management.

He was kind enough to spend a few moments answering some questions about himself.  Learn more about him below.

Tell us three interesting things about you, that your blog subscribers may not even know.

• I’m actually a pretty classic introvert.
• I was a worship pastor for 15 years.
• My favorite vacation spot is NYC.  My wife and I try to make a couple weekend trips there each year to relax and unwind.

When and why did you start blogging?

“Wow… I started blogging around 2002 as an extension of a church staffing website that I owned and the MondayMorningInsight weekly email newsletter that I published.  It seems to be the next logical step.  Of course, all this was new back then.  There were very few of us blogging; and none of us were sure what we were doing!  ”

What are your favorite three posts?

“You know… I really don’t have favorites that stick out to me.  Someone once told me that MondayMorningInsight was the perfect combination:  1/2 Bible and 1/2 National Enquirer.  I’ve always liked that.  I try to balance great pieces on church leadership along with some of the more controversial, silly, and outrageous things that happen in church leadership.  Some things make me laugh; others make me upset… but I think it’s important as church leaders that we have a good understanding of what’s going on in our world.  It makes a difference in how we relate, and how we lead.  (And… we need to, at the same time, stop taking ourselves so seriously!)”

With a blog that covers leadership, the church and technology, etc., what are you most passionate about?

“I am most passionate about pastors staying in the race.  Many times I’ll cover scandal and falls from grace… but I do so because I want to dig inside what happened so that we can all learn from it.  Pastors need to guard themselves against sin; but it seems that many do not.  I’m hoping that by telling the stories (both good and bad) from other pastors and leaders it will motivate, encourage, and scare us to death to make sure we’re pure and can finish the race honorably and with grace.”

What is your biggest pet peeve when visiting a website (or church website)?

“My personal pet peeve is when content is not updated.  It shows that your website is dated and totally non-relevant to the needs of the users.  Content is king; and it has to be current. “

If you are in leadership and are searching for valuable articles to encourage, entertain and stretch you, visit his blog and follow him on Twitter @toddrhoades.