You Were Born for This with Fr. John Riccardo
Jun 22, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min · 10 segments
In this episode, Fr. John and Mary reflect on God’s call in our lives to be and do great things for Him as they break open ACTS XXIX’s first core, or apostolic, value: ambitious for God and His…
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John RiccardoHost
Mary GuilfoyleHost
So last week we started a new series breaking open what we call the how of our work, because we really believe this is every bit as important as the what that we do.
And that's just not true for us in Acts 29 in our ministry, but we believe it's true for any ministry or any organization.
And to repeat something we mentioned last week, we're making time to do this because it's been our experience, both when you and I were serving in parish ministry, and then from so many that we've been fortunate enough to serve over these last seven years, we find it the case that the church is often, not always to be sure, but often far too corporate.
And we've said that perhaps more than anything else in the church right now, we need to learn how to be human again.
And all we do, we could just have a whole podcast series just on that crisis alone.
So this series owes much to a great book that a real good friend of ours, Pat Lencioni, wrote called The Advantage.
And his encouragement in that book is that every organization needs to have absolute clarity on what he calls six critical questions.
And those questions are, number one, why do we exist? Two, how do we behave? Three, what do we do? Four, how will we succeed? Five, what is most important right now? And then lastly, who must do what? So what we're doing in this series is we're zeroing in on that second question.
How do we behave? And Lencioni says that answering this question helps to clarify an organization's, I love this, personality.
So last week we started a new series breaking open what we call the how of our work, because we really believe this is every bit as important as the what that we do.
And that's just not true for us in Acts 29 in our ministry, but we believe it's true for any ministry or any organization.
And to repeat something we mentioned last week, we're making time to do this because it's been our experience, both when you and I were serving in parish ministry, and then from so many that we've been fortunate enough to serve over these last seven years, we find it the case that the church is often, not always to be sure, but often far too corporate.
And we've said that perhaps more than anything else in the church right now, we need to learn how to be human again.
And all we do, we could just have a whole podcast series just on that crisis alone.
So this series owes much to a great book that a real good friend of ours, Pat Lencioni, wrote called The Advantage.
And his encouragement in that book is that every organization needs to have absolute clarity on what he calls six critical questions.
And those questions are, number one, why do we exist? Two, how do we behave? Three, what do we do? Four, how will we succeed? Five, what is most important right now? And then lastly, who must do what? So what we're doing in this series is we're zeroing in on that second question.
How do we behave? And Lencioni says that answering this question helps to clarify an organization's, I love this, personality.
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