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Guest Bios Show Transcript If your pastor stepped away for six months, what would happen to your church? Would people still know how to care for one another? Could the other leaders make decisions together? In this episode of The Restore Report, Lance Ford asks what a pastor is actually supposed to do and whether […]

Guest Bios Show Transcript https://youtu.be/1BGg93dKs3I “Her ministry helped me.” Following the Roys Report’s docuseries on Kathryn Krick and Geordavie, defenders have pointed to their positive experiences. But does being helped by a ministry settle whether its teaching is true? In this episode of The Restore Report, Lance Ford looks beneath the testimonials to examine what […]

Guest Bios Show Transcript The lights go down. The music comes up. Everything runs on cue. But when the service ends, have we been formed into the likeness of Jesus? In this episode of The Restore Report, Lance Ford examines church hype and asks what happens when producing an impressive Sunday experience becomes our understanding […]

Guest Bios Show Transcript https://youtu.be/pEC0BCFwtdY Most people know the story of Mars Hill Church as the story of Mark Driscoll—a gifted communicator, a rapidly growing church and an eventual collapse. But what about the other leaders entrusted with protecting the congregation? In this episode of The Restore Report, Lance Ford welcomes Rob Thain Smith to […]

Guest Bios Show Transcript Can a pastor who has experienced serious moral failure ever return to church leadership? In this episode of The Restore Report, Lance Ford examines a question that surfaces again and again after public scandals: Does the Bible teach that a fallen pastor should be restored to leadership? He begins with a […]

Guest Bios Show Transcript Millions of Christians have been taught that God governs the church through a spiritual chain of command – God at the top, a pastor or spiritual leader beneath Him, and everyone else expected to submit. In this episode of The Restore Report, Lance Ford asks a foundational question: Does the New […]

Guest Bios Show Transcript What should you actually look for when you are ready to consider church again? In this episode of The Restore Report, Lance Ford builds on the overwhelming response to his recent conversation with Julie Roys, “I Love Jesus. But Can’t Go Back,” and addresses the question many church-hurt and disillusioned Christians […]

Guest Bios Show Transcript What happens when Bible verses meant to guide Christians are used instead to silence questions, demand loyalty and protect leaders from accountability? In this episode of The Restore Report, Lance Ford counts down five passages that unhealthy and abusive church leaders repeatedly hide behind – and shows why the problem is […]

Guest Bios Show Transcript What happens when you still love Jesus, still believe, still pray and still care about the kingdom of God – but you cannot bring yourself to go back to church? In this episode of The Restore Report, Lance Ford and Julie Roys speak to Christians who remain deeply engaged with Jesus […]

Guest Bios Show Transcript What happens when a Christian teacher starts with a Bible verse, adds personal revelation, inference and speculation, and then presents the whole package as though Scripture teaches it? In this episode of The Restore Report, Lance Ford examines the extraordinary alien teachings of charismatic minister Katie Souza and asks a simple […]

Guest Bios Show Transcript What do you do when the offense is real—when you’ve been betrayed by a pastor, mistreated by a church or wounded by a Christian leadership system that used spiritual language to justify control? The answer is not to pretend the harm did not happen. But neither is it to let anger […]

Guest Bios Show Transcript What happens when “honor your leaders” comes to mean looking beyond a pastor’s behavior? When truth-telling is labeled accusation, accountability is called rebellion and leaving an abusive church feels like disobeying God? In part two of this series, Lance Ford examines how the Under Cover framework can protect authority at the […]

Guest Bios Show Transcript Some of the most dangerous teachings in the church don’t sound dangerous. They quote Scripture and speak of honor, submission, obedience, authority and protection. But when obedience to God becomes tangled with obedience to human leaders, biblical language can become a framework for control. In Part One of this series, Lance […]

Guest Bios Show Transcript Pastoral ministry has increasingly been reshaped by the values of platform culture: visibility, growth, efficiency and the ability to draw a crowd. But Eugene Peterson embodied a radically different vision—a pastor who knew his people, paid attention to God and believed faithfulness was personal, slow and rooted in place. On this […]

Are women pastors unbiblical, as the Southern Baptist Convention proposed. Or, could it be that the SBC has a faulty view—not just of women, but of pastors?