Best Christian Workplaces
Traders Point Christian Church's staff culture was once, in Greg Anderson's own words, "barely healthy." Since then, they've built a healthy, flourishing workplace culture — and the church itself has become one of the fastest-growing in the country. Greg, Executive Pastor of Traders Point, a multisite church in the Indianapolis area, explains why those two facts aren't a coincidence.
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About This Episode
Greg traces a real turning point back to the season after COVID, when the church was humbled into confronting whether it was making disciples as intentionally as its growth suggested. Coming out of that season, an Employee Engagement Survey revealed a gap between how clear Traders Point's leadership thought the church's direction was and what staff actually understood. Greg discusses what his team changed in response — work that moved the church into Best Christian Workplaces' flourishing range and earned it recognition as a Certified Best Christian Workplace. He brings 12 years of pharmaceutical sales leadership and years overseeing roughly 150 staff to a conversation built for any leader trying to grow without losing their team along the way.
Episode Highlights
02:52: What COVID exposed — a church that had just crossed 10,000 people realized it wasn't making disciples as well as it thought
05:59: A Sustainable Strategy score too low for a church their size — the survey finding that reset how leadership defined clarity
12:35: Growing from strength versus growing from strain — how a flourishing culture changed what the last two years of growth felt like
16:20: The question a co-pastor asked that changed how they talk about culture — has culture become the goal instead of the mission?
21:56: The staff meeting where two-thirds of the room lined up to confess sin — and what it revealed about the culture they'd built
Meet the Guest
Greg Anderson is the Executive Pastor of Traders Point Christian Church, a multisite church with campuses throughout the Indianapolis area, where he oversees about 150 staff. He spent 12 years in pharmaceutical sales and sales management, where he developed a passion for building a culture of excellence that achieves strong results. He joined Traders Point as Campus Pastor of its first multisite campus before stepping into the Executive Pastor role. The Traders Point team has consistently been named a Certified Best Christian Workplace.
Resources Mentioned
- The Advantage by Patrick Lencioni
- How the Mighty Fall by Jim Collins
- Gradually Then Suddenly by Mark Batterson
- Best Christian Workplaces Employee Engagement Survey
Episode Transcript:
A full, word-for-word transcript of this episode is available here.
Next Steps for Leaders:
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