Leading Conversations · Jun 1, 2026 · 33:33
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A lot of leaders talk about “finishing well” like it is a slogan. Rob Acker has lived it, from a youth group of eight kids to decades of pastoral leadership, church planting, and the slow work of staying healthy. JD and I start with a personal story of how our lives crossed, then Rob takes us back to the roots: simple discipleship, opening the Bible as a teenager, and the way the local church quietly forms a leader long before anyone gives you a title.
Rob closes with a leadership framework that sticks: character, knowledge, and skills, plus the daily practices that protect the character piece. If this conversation helps you, subscribe, share it with a leader you respect, and leave a review so more church planters and pastors can find it.
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