Ministry on the Move

Sometimes faith feels like standing on the edge of a cliff, with only one choice: step off and trust God to catch you. In this powerful conversation,  Pastor Glenn Hall  of Harvest Church (Pearson, IN) opens up about the highs and lows of pastoral life, the realities of leading a congregation, and the grace that keeps him coming back week after week. From navigating church growth and community cha...

Ministry on the Move  is a podcast for pastors, ministry leaders, and those serving the church on the front lines. Hosted by Chris McNeill — a traveling worship leader who spends his life in churches across the country — this show brings you honest, unfiltered conversations with shepherds from churches of every size, shape, and setting. This is not a podcast about building platforms. It’s about st...

Salvation does not get Satan off your back, Holiness is not a dress code, Covid - great falling away?, Ordinances in Christianity, The things God can't do, The limitations of man, Fear marks the fall, The gift of tongues and of interpretation, The job of prophecy, speed round

I only need faith in that room, All my stuffed animals had the Holy Ghost, Divine Healing - By His Stripes We are Healed, My wife almost died four times, Yielding to the Holy Ghost, Old Fashioned Holiness, There's going to be some kind of response to the Holy Ghost, Modesty in the church, A pentecostal revival meeting, Why Tongues, All my issues were gone, Idols and Idolatry, the 2nd work of grace...

God's grocery store and food insecurity, Community Garden, Can we make a dent in the needs, Toxic Charity, and First World IS a problem.

80% is no longer full, young people are looking for the answers, The Anabaptist movement, a basic misunderstanding of grace, the weightier matters of the law, We take grace for granted, the law vs. Grace, Saved from Legalism, and the full council of scripture.

Brought up in the ministry, Revival meetings, Our business is our demise, the legacy of this ministry, Leaving UPS with God's blessing, The sign is not a halo, Doing a homegoing for those you know, I'm betwixt, Living in the land of the dying, but going to the land of the living, 7000 whose knees have not bowed down to Ba'al, Paganism opposing Christianity and the speed round.

Made by God for a purpose, Moses face glowing and Miss Edna, The sons of God shouted for joy, Sin makes you stupid, The Devil's Focus is to steal the glory of God, The Norman Conquest and my pride, Neutrality is disobedience, is Satan an Eternal Being? The trinity is not some abstraction, The 2nd person in Heaven, Adam and Eve weren't naked, The Sacrifice, Killing your own cattle and the c...

Lagging vs. Leading Metrics, Training up a new generation, Fragmented community might be a good thing, Cultural Christianity and the next generation, A Crisis of Meaning, The church is ' lite' on..., Historical Allegory vs. the Modernists, Historical Allegory vs. the Modernists, What about me?, The Christian life isn't digging sand, Western Civilization is built on the Creator, I know...

The main method, We expect every moment of our Christian lives to be 'a ha', On the music wars and new music in the church, The greatest tip for making up you've ever heard

God is in control, but does my life reflect that, A King on the Throne, The evil child asks 'why'?, Is God trustable?, Why do bad things happen to good people?, Is God in Control, Death as a release from this life, Dentist or Doctor, Eternity is the hope that we have, Paganism in Christianity, Share Jesus without Fear, Debates aren't helpful, Biblical vs. Societal Christianity, Emptyin...

Heeding the call of the Lord, Polity and installing elders, California vs. Texas, Hospitality in Texas, Ministering to a congregation from a variety of Christian denominations, On gifts in the church, Multiple churches in the same area, Worship night for pastors and spouses, maintaining existing unity, The greatest joy of the job is, teaching the hard parts of scripture, Wait a minute. I didn'...

Being a transitional pastor, grieving the previous pastor, an intentional transition, Baptisms vs. Funerals, understanding the community around you, becoming a facilitator, growing pains, Pixar's "Up" as an analogy for churches, finding a new pastor, Demographics, over-religious vs. Christian, Mentoring churches, Next obstacle of the church is apathy, Retirement is NOT the end of the world, Where...

Go Vols!, My calling violates my theology, somewhat. I'm supposed to be a Senator or the Governor at this point, Widowed after 24 days of marriage, If we were never to be parents, could you be happy with me? I don't believe in unredeemed suffering, what is revival, the fear of the Lord, the Kingdom of Heaven and How does discipleship happen?

On Revival, We're deeply afraid of what God's calling us to do, Listening to the voice of God, They won't remember most of what I say: The Unsaved Christian by Dean Inserra https://www.amazon.com/Unsaved-Christian-Reaching-Cultural-Christianity/dp/0802418805

Immaturity in the Ministry, More than a conversion, a hard open, I wanted to do church planting. Suicide, Christmas, a KJV bible, and the Romans Road. The church and 3 strikes, Pastoral Education and things they didn't teach me in Seminary, I'm thankful for the abuse,tears, and that I contemplated suicide. Unsaved people are going to act unsaved.

What's fun about being a pastor, seeing God's word come to pass, buying baptismal robes before you need them, you have to believe it to see it, Chris' shameless plug, back to John and his book of 5 things the church needs to remember, The truth about shepherds, On living by faith, the speed round, If you could ask any pastor anything, who and what would it be?

Why I do this podcast, When the Lord gives the vision, Don't be afraid of the quiet, Whatever that looks like - tell me how I can help, Embracing "Old Fashioned", On Multicultural church

What Revival looks like, speed round and the best way to communicate with your own children

Youth Minister vs. Pastor, I'm the Karate Kid, I'd lost compassion, I fall in love with my people easily, ministering to the grieving, reengaging members of the church, the necessity of communication, reaching out, we had no idea they died, and using a verbatim.

Studying scripture in multiple languages, Get a passport, go overseas and serve, The Holy Spirit or just momentum?, Comfort is not what God desires for us, Persecution in China, Praise is worse than persecution, Mick Jagger was right, Eyes of life and not of death. The Jesus I never knew: https://www.amazon.com/Jesus-I-Never-Knew/dp/031021923X Daniel's prayer (translated by Chris via an online...

Chinese and InnerCity meeting together, Coming to America, A Chinese church in America, A Church of 12 would be considered thriving in my country, nominal Christianity, Christianity in America from an outsider's perspective, What do we really need in order to worship? We or I? Pastoring in my second language

When did we start making our own stuff up? We need desperation, the message need to hear, how my heart changed my ministry: What if this was the last message I ever preached. The McNeill's Song: Welcome Home, One of the trenches of the gospel, the slowest speed round ever? https://seejesus.net/collections/a-praying-church https://mcneillmusic.tv/podcast

Working with your son on staff: I learn more from my son than he learns from me, living next door to each other, living with your family, church growth, The Chainbreaker, The questions to ask of Scripture, The Americanized gospel isn't cutting it, and Resting in the Sovereignty of God. https://mcneillmusic.tv/podcast

A magnificent look at Baptism and communion: The matzah, Seder, and end times: The time of the birth pains and the new speed round. https://mcneillmusic.tv/podcast