Sam Kelly — Pastors' Kids, the Hillsong Story & the Reality of Ministry | C3 Podcast With Ed Young
- Preacher
- Ed Young
- Tradition
- Baptist — Southern
- Published
- Length
- 24:04
About this sermon
In this episode of the C3 Leadership Podcast, Pastor Ed Young sits down with his son-in-law Sam Kelly for an honest, behind-the-scenes conversation about life in ministry, growing up as pastors' kids, and the reality most people never see. Ed shares the story of how the Holy Spirit opened him to the charismatic world — including meeting a young Brian Houston and a little-known worship band called Hillsong early on — and he and Sam compare their Baptist and Pentecostal backgrounds and what each tradition does best. They talk candidly about the hard parts of ministry: watching your parents absorb criticism and take the high road, staff departures no one can explain publicly, and the toll it takes on a pastor's family. Along the way: why public speaking is most people's number one fear, the discipline of being able to give your message in twenty minutes, ten, then one, why "you're only as good as your last message," and the difference between being called to ministry and just signing up. Subscribe for new C3 Podcast episodes. Learn more about C3 at c3conference.com. #C3Podcast #EdYoung #PastorsKid #Hillsong #Pentecostal #Ministry #Preaching
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