14: Pastor Adam Dolhanyk Cares for Peoples Souls And Mows the Lawn

Author: Adam Miller
Published: Thu 15 Dec 2022
Episode Link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nplus1podcast/episodes/14-Pastor-Adam-Dolhanyk-Cares-for-Peoples-Souls-And-Mows-the-Lawn-e1s9jbk

Today I continue our series on the role of the modern church especially when it come to interacting with and reaching our current world and culture. We are talking to church leaders and have already talked to a Worship Leader, and today we are talking to a Senior Pastor.

Today we bring on the Senior Pastor of Faith on Hill Church in Portland Oregon, Adam Dolhanyk. Adam and I met maybe four years ago at one of the Church Collective One Day Conferences that Ryan Loche and I mentioned in last week’s podcast. For a number of years we also played fantasy football together through the 60 Cycle Hum Facebook group’s competition, 60 Cycle Hut, which I won one year. Adam has some seriously good taste in guitar gear, but we’re not here to talk about gear, today I want to talk about leading others to be more like Christ.

There’s no way around it. Adam was amazing. He was so insightful and knowledgeable, he was so passionate about reaching people, it was infectious. Adam starts by sharing his journey to becoming a pastor, starting with a powerful spiritual experience, then becoming a missionary, moving on to being a worship leader, and eventually being a pastor. Adam talks about shortcomings he has seen in other pastors and how he tries desperately to avoid those shortcomings in himself. He talks about how critical it is for Pastors to make sure that they are tending to their own spiritual needs.

Adam talks about how much work being a pastor is and that sometimes it means you might have to dig a ditch. He also talks about how as a Pastor it’s a really good idea to have many career skills to be otherwise employable, because you may need a second job, or your time as a pastor may run it’s course, or your time as a pastor may have seasons.

Adam is very open about the challenges and hurts of the pastoral life and how sometimes it means that you lose friends when people leave the church, or how people will attempt to damage your reputation to save theirs.

Adam is an awesome dude and I really wish we had the opportunity to hang out in person and talk and play some music, but instead I get this. But, I get to share it with you, and that makes me happy.

We’ll be taking a break for the holidays, expect new episodes in January!

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Faith On Hill Church:

https://www.faithonhill.com/

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https://vimeo.com/faithonhill/videos

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https://www.instagram.com/adamdolhanyk/

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