Podcast Interview with Noel Heikkinen on Anxiety, Avoiding Burnout & Guarding Against Ego and Sexual Sin

Episode #10 of the “Behind the Curtain” Ministry Podcast is here!

Noah Filipiak interviews Noel Heikkinen, one of the pastors at Riverview Church in Holt, Lansing and East Lansing, MI.  Riverview is a church made up of around 3000 – 4000 people that has 4 venues in the Lansing area.  Noel and Noah discuss the hardest thing about being a pastor, including a helpful discussion about the anxiety pastors and church planters face, how we can combat anxiety, and how churchgoers can help their pastors feel less anxiety.  They discuss how churchgoers can help their pastors stay healthy, avoid burnout, and stay at their current ministry post longer.  They also discuss the dangers of church planting and book publishing, including good reasons to do such ventures as well as sinful reasons.

Noel is a director with the Acts 29 Church Planting network and is author of Unchained.

You can listen to the episode below and/or can subscribe via iTunes (recommended if you want easy access to old episodes and instant downloads of new episodes)

Bonus material from Episode 10:

Noel’s blog

Riverview Church’s blog

Noel on Twitter

Breakout Churches by Thom Rainer

Rescuing Ambition by Dave Harvey

Your Life in Rhythm by Bruce Miller

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Founding Pastor at Mosaic Church

Noah is the founding pastor of Mosaic Church, a multi-ethnic church in urban Grand Rapids, MI. He is a grad of Grand Rapids Theological Seminary.
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