Hosted by Sats Solanki aka the Digital Rabbi, this podcast is all about helping church leaders build great cultures and recover healthy New Testament theology around leadership.
Around the world there is a growing phenomenon where the current generation of pastors are getting older and yet the next generation doesn't seem too interested in replacing them. I believe this is an important sign for us to take note of and ask the question, why don't the next generation want to lead? It's easy to put it down to lack of work ethic or surrender to Christ but perhaps it's simply because they're smart enough to know what they're signing up for. The next generation doesn't want...
20 Jul 2026
Women in leadership
Few topics seem to attract as much controversy as whether women are allowed to lead, teach or pastor. In today's episode, I share some theology around women in leadership with a unique lens. If leadership is primarily about function and gift as opposed to position, then this conversation becomes a very different one. The concept of an office of elder/pastor is a popular one but if we look at the original Greek, it doesn't actually exist. I hope you find this helpful and challenging! I'd love ...
9 Jun 2026
Senior Pastors and Apostles
Language is hugely nuanced depending on the culture and context but I think it's fair to say that if we read the Bible for the first time, we would never use the term Senior Pastor to describe a church leader. Mainly because the term is only used to describe Jesus. In this episode we talk about how the gift of apostle gets muddled up with the modern senior pastor and why that ends up being a bad thing for the church (and the leader in question). Strangely enough, even in hierarchical spaces t...
1 Jun 2026
Should we use titles?
Jesus expressly told us not to use honorific titles. Not just once but three times in Matthew 23. Does this mean we can't call our parents, mum and dad? Or that we can't refer to a doctor as doctor? Not quite. The point Jesus is making is that whenever titles are loaded to protect and serve an existing power dynamic, we should refrain from using them. This is exactly how the Pharisees used titles and exactly how a large chunk of the modern church uses titles today. In this episode, we'll dig ...
12 May 2026
Biblical submission
If your pastor wants you to rob a bank, what do you do? This silly little example is a powerful way of illustrating the nuances of biblical submission. There are plenty of verses about submission (including to leaders) but all of them are held in tension with the need to submit to God and to one another. Even though it's rarely preached explicitly, the subtle takeaway for many in the modern church is that disagreeing with the chain of command will take you out of the blessing and favour of Go...
23 Apr 2026
The problem with honour culture
Honour is a good thing. But too much honour or overemphasis of honour in one area (such as leadership) in a culture can have unintended fruit in the long term. I believe much of how honour is taught in the modern church is very different from how it is described in the Bible (particularly the New Testament). Sadly this often results in the disempowering of the saints with the emergence of the clergy class. In this episode we look through some of the scriptures on honour. I talk about how to s...
10 Apr 2026
Leading church as a team
When we planted Reflect Church in 2021, we defaulted to leading as a team of 5. I'd like to say that this came from some sort of theological conviction but it didn't. The honest answer is that we were afraid. We'd seen the dark side of top-down leadership and were looking to mitigate the risks. As we made major decisions (like signing a building lease) as a church in this way, I began to study the scripture. I wanted to understand my own gifting and role and I stumbled across something surpri...
20 Mar 2026
This shouldn't be controversial
Welcome to the first episode of the Leadership Horticulture podcast. I've spent the last (almost) 20 years involved in church leadership and have learnt a few things along the way. In particular over the last six years thanks to a particularly painful series of events in 2020, I have spent a lot of time processing what went wrong and examining our theology for church and leadership in general. In this introductory episode, I share my heart and vision for the direction of travel for this podca...
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