Brian Taylor shares his story of leaving an established church as Executive Pastor to  plant E3 church in Kuna, ID[00:00:00] :  you're listening to the City network podcast, our mission is to grow and multiply healthy churches in the Treasure Valley and beyond. Head to the city network dot org for more info on our initiatives to catalyze church transformation and church planting. Here's today's podcast. All right, welcome to the City Network podcast. I'm your host, robert Frazier, I'm pastor at Redemption Hill and today I have the distinct pleasure of having a good friend that I've gotten to know the last few years brian taylor with us with E three Church. Welcome to the podcast, brian Clapper here, thank you. Good to be here, man. Yeah, we got together, I think it was a little over two years ago we sat down and uh you were the um executive Pastor Grace bible church out in Nampa Idaho and uh you know, I I've invited you here today to talk a little bit about your journey and what's happened, so just just start out by giving us a little sample of like who are you, what have you been doing and then your story over the last year. Yeah, absolutely, I well I was, I was born and raised in Idaho and there's not many of us know there's not, no, there's not, but I love what God is doing in our community and um just About 11 years ago um came on as the executive pastor at Grace and keith Wagner's lead pastor there and it was just three of us, it was matt Ritchie or youth pastor keith and myself and um just kind of started a new journey, kind of, we created our mission and our vision, Derek Grace and um honestly it's a role that I never dreamed, I would, I would actually do, I was a youth pastor in Tennessee for 3.5 years before that and keith called me uh um guy before keith I should say, called me out here and said hey come home, we need your help and um God just opened up multiple doors and through that process and then in 2011 keith came on And um it's just been a fun fun journey um to see what God's done, so came into the role, Keith came on in 2011 and um came on to the role of executive pastor that following year Okay, well tell me a little bit about the journey and grace bible and kind of what God's been doing over the last nine years since keith showed up Yeah, yeah, absolutely, um so we were, we were running about 150 people um at the time and in that um timeframe just felt like God was call us to kind of start develop our mission and vision and our core values and all that and we sat down for about seven months just working through, okay who are we going to be, what does this look like, whose grace bible church if Grace bible, church didn't exist, how would we be missed all of those kinds of questions and just started whiteboard dreams and things that God was calling us to and um it was in those, that first year really was a catalyst for um a lot of who grace bible church is now, um we wanted one of the questions that was asked of keith that first year was what do you, what do you deem a healthy church, and keith had never been a pastor before, it was his first time too, he was kind of in a new rule and and keith, one of the things he said at the very beginning that we were all passionate about is he said I want I want to be known to be ascending church and one of the things that will mark us as a healthy churches if we're sending church, and so we set out on a mission to make sure that was a reality and went through a lot of things um early in those first few years, you know, I remember when people, when I was hired people were like well what's his role, what's he gonna do, why does this person exist? I mean, he's, he does a little on Sundays, what does he do the rest of the other six days? Um yeah, and so there was a lot of unknowns, you know, the church had never really had that role before, and so we just started kind of building into that and keith, one of the things he did early on that I think...