Ministry, Trauma & Healing - Nicole Martin - 43 - FrontStage BackStage with Jason Daye

How might trauma in our own lives impact the way we serve in ministry? In this week's conversation on FrontStage BackStage, host Jason Daye is joined by the Reverend Dr. Nicole Martin, who was recently appointed as the Chief Impact Officer at Christianity Today. Previously, Nicole served as the Senior Vice President of Ministry Impact at the American Bible Society, where she also provided leadership to the Trauma Healing Institute. Nicole has written several books, and currently serves on the board of the National Association of Evangelicals. Together, Nicole and I explore some of the potential dangers and the positive benefits when it comes to examining trauma in our own lives. And we also look at how we can help make our lives, our homes, and our churches, places of healing.
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Some key takeaways from this conversation:
Nicole Martin on the need for pastors to address their own trauma: "Pastors have to tend to our own wounds, because it is out of our woundedness that we can connect to the wounds of others."
Nicole Martin on ministry leaders reluctance to address their own wounds: "Leaders tend to believe that God will do more for others than he will do for us…. Believe that God wants to heal you as much as he wants to heal others."
Nicole Martin on the value of safe spaces and relationships for ministry leaders: "Every pastor has to ask himself or herself, who is my community, who's in my community, that might speak God's Word over me and be the place of healing? Where are my safe people?"
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