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Matt Wright

Matt Wright

Vice President of Church Executive Search at Slingshot Group; former Executive Pastor and Lead Pastor at Willow Creek Community Church in Chicago with 20+ years in church leadership.

Aug 10, 2026

42:27
In what way?
42:28
Um, it is- It is difficult to, um, sacrifice your own needs and wants every day, and every week, and every year for what your kids need and what they want to do.
42:44
Um, it is, um, it's difficult to navigate training them.
42:53
The, um, so the, the burden seems really daunting of like, how do I get these kids ready for the world? I mean, from the things you mentioned, like changing a tire, which my kids are not ...
43:07
They've seen me do things like that, but, you know, they're not old enough yet to really do it on their own, but they just, they still love being there.
43:13
But not only that, but like how do I teach them about their finances, and how do I teach them, um, we're, we're homeschooling, so, you know, how do we t- also teach them the knowledge-

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55:15
How do you, how do you do that, um, knowing that there's inherent competition between those items? Or is there?
55:26
I, I've had that conversation with m- with Lindsay regularly.
0:00
Thanks for the welcome.
0:01
Glenn, thank you particularly for the welcome.
0:03
I don't know if you sanitized that.
0:04
I was actually worried.
0:07
I don't know if you sanitized it or Paul just got nice.
0:10
That's hardly true.
20:09
Yeah.
20:10
And I come back to it, if, if we're gonna get really practical for the leaders out there, how do you do it? I think if you're the leader, to get very practical, what's critical is to create the space for it.
20:20
Y- your team likely wants to be respectful to you.
20:24
So you inviting them in is important.
20:27
I, I like to use kind of a, a continuum, if you will.
20:30
There are directive decisions, where we're not, we don't need to have a, a, a friction conversation.
20:37
We know that we're going in this decision.
23:51
Yeah
3:35
Mm
3:36
... probably the most common thing that I see working with churches, and we've all done that quite a bit.
3:40
And, and what that looks like is let's just rely on conviction alone.
3:45
Like, as long as we are really excited about this and I'm convicted and I'm, I'm all on board, then I'm gonna do whatever it takes to get it done.
3:53
Well, the problem is when we move to a place where we are a team that's, that's larger than one or two, all of a sudden we've got to know lanes.

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28:08
Hmm
28:09
W-I-N, a win audit, and here's, here's what I mean for it.
28:12
In this chapter, Tim, you write about silos and breaking down silos, and we were talking before about that, that shiny object and, and, uh, allowing maybe a certain skill set to destroy the rest of, of your team.

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