Steve Brown Etc.

Steve Brown Etc. is a nationally syndicated talk show featuring discussion, comedy, and interviews designed to explore what it’s like to live out Steve Brown’s teaching on grace and freedom. Visit SteveBrownEtc.com to get past programs, download interviews, read Steve’s blog, hear comedy bits, and a whole lot more!

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Pooped Pastors

At any given time, 75% of pastors in America want to quit. 1,500 pastors leave their assignments each month due to moral failure, spiritual burnout or contention within their local congregations. 70% of pastors do not have a close friend with whom they can openly share their struggles.*

Chances are that your pastor is pooped. And if you are a pastor...well...you know. It’s a uniquely tough job, and Steve has just launched an equally unique website to help.

Now there’s a safe place of grace and help for the shepherds of God’s flock. Stop by PoopedPastors.com and spread the word!

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* Statistics from Focus on the Family, Fuller Institute of Church Growth and Church Resource Ministries

Easter Magazine: Too Many Mothers!

There is something about being a Christian that makes you into everybody's mother. And there are just too many mothers around.

I'm a teacher and it's my gift. It's a cool gift. I get a microphone. I get a broadcast. I get a pulpit. I get to talk (or write) and you get to listen (or read). And when I'm teaching, it's especially cool when I see "lights" go on all over the place.

The downside of the gift of teaching, though, is that I can't stop being your mother. I keep trying to correct you, fix you and make you like me.

Someone has said that "where two or three people are gathered in the name of Christ...there are problems."

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Steve's Letter: He's not finished with us yet!

This morning I answered a listener's email who asked to be removed from our mailing list. That happens a lot. This particular man was upset about my friendship with a fairly well-known Christian leader and wanted nothing to do with anybody who had anything to do with that Christian leader.

We, of course, took his name off our mailing list. I then wrote to him...

You must live a lonely life if you remove yourself from all the places, people and ministries with which you disagree.

I haven't found anybody except Jesus (and I have trouble with him sometimes :)) with whom I agree all the time...and certainly ___________ is someone with whom I disagree about a bunch of stuff. My pastor drives me nuts sometimes and my wife too. Then I have children with whom I disagree. And I certainly have serious problems with the nation's politicians.

But where am I going to go? It's hard to be an outsider of the human race.

Do you know what "secondary separation" is?

Primary separation is not having anything to do with the bad folks. Secondary separation is not having anything to do with the folks who have anything to do with the bad folks. One could, I suppose, even refuse to have anything to do with the folks who have anything to do with the folks who have anything to do with the folks who have anything to do with the bad folks.

Pretty soon it's just you and Jesus...

...and when Jesus leaves the building, the building can be a lonely place...

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