If you love Nashville like I love Nashville, I’m guessing I know one thing about Nashville you love most. It’s the music.

Wander down any one of several streets, stop in at any one of several dozen honky-tonks, and you’ll find some of the best music you’ve ever heard. And it’s almost always played by someone you’ve never heard of.

Hundreds of musicians with songs in their souls and dreams in their hearts go to Nashville looking for fame. Most of them don’t find it. (<One writer estimated> there are 300 out-of-work musicians and 3,000 out-of-work singers in Nashville on any given day.)

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Even though I have been leading in some form or fashion in the church for the last twenty years, I still am a very young leader with a lot to learn from other leaders. For a couple of years now it has been a desire of mine to start a podcast simply called, Learning To Lead. I have had a desire for it to be a podcast where I find and interview leaders from the church, business, corporate, and anywhere leadership is displayed and find out what makes them great leaders.

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As I announced in this space two weeks ago, we talked about racism at church Sunday. People who haven’t been in church for awhile came to see what we would say, and more than one of them told me afterwards, “A church like this is the church I want to be a part of.”

Longtime members said the same. “Thanks for today. I want to be part of a church that addresses issues like this one.”

It was a stake-in-the-ground day not only for Christ’s Church, but for THE church. Too many congregations are looking away or accepting the status quo, staying silent about the problem of racism.

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