#19: Where the Sticky Gets Lost | Going From Intuitive to Intentional in Your Relationships feat. Robby Booth

Our ministries are an overflow of our relationships. In this episode Pastor, Chaplain and Therapist , Robby Booth, unpacks the wisdom he's gained in his over 80,000 hours of counseling with ministry leaders and couples. We discuss combatting the false beliefs that hurt relationships, healthy ministry/relationship priorities and practical steps we can take individually to be intentional in growing in our relationships.

Click Here For Robby's 10 Steps for Relational Intentionality
Resources Highlighted in this Interview: 

• Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization by Robert Kegan & Lisa Laskow Lahey
• Changes That Heal by Dr. Henry Cloud
• Safe People: How to Find Relationships That Are Good for You and Avoid Those That Aren't by Dr. Henry Cloud
• Gottman Card Decks App
• The Conquer Series
• Covenant Eyes

Guest Bio:
Robby Booth alongside his wife, Bonita, presently serves the NCO as the director of CSR West. As minister of Pastoral Care directing CSR West, Robby brings care and restoration to pastors, ministers & missionaries of the Foursquare movement.

In other various roles, Robby has served the Foursquare family on the Cabinet and Executive Council, as well as regional supervisor and assistant general supervisor, Director of Foursquare Chaplaincy & national camps director.

Robby and Bonita have served as senior pastors of Faith Chapel Foursquare Church in Glendale, Ariz. for eleven years. Robby and Bonita later moved to Modesto to serve as district supervisors of the former Western District office of Foursquare churches in January 1995. 

Robby received a dual major bachelor's degree in Christian ministries/counseling from Hope University and a master's degree in marriage and family counseling from Azusa Pacific University.  Prior to moving to Arizona, he served eleven years on staff at Trinity Christian Center Foursquare Church as the married couples’ pastor.  He is CERT, CISM and DRT certified as well as specialties in dealing with trauma and sexual addictions.  Ordained in 1979, Robby directed two counseling centers in Southern CA before becoming a senior pastor. With over 80,000 hours of counseling, Robby was initially licensed as a MFCC in 1980, later also becoming a trauma specialist. 
“An ordinary guy serving an extraordinary God!” is how Robby would say he wants to be known, loving God and loving people.  He is a strong family man with deep love for his wife, Bonita, as well as their three children, Jeremy, Jessica, and Joshua and wonderful grandchildren.

Audio Engineer & Editing by Brenton Hill
Produced by Chad Garrison

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