Making Repentance Hopeful | An Interview With Nate Sharp

Dr. Nate Sharp is a scholar and academic leader who currently
serves as Dean of the Mays Business School at Texas A&M
University. He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, served in the
Korea Seoul West Mission, then taught Korean at the Missionary
Training Center in Provo, Utah, while attending Brigham Young
University. Nate graduated from BYU’s Marriott School of Business
with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in accounting and later
completed a PhD at the University of Texas at Austin. During his
time at Texas A&M, Nate has served in multiple leadership
positions, received multiple awards recognizing excellence in
research and teaching, and been widely published in top
peer-reviewed scholarly journals.. Nate married Holly Carroll, they
are the parents of five children, and their oldest daughter is
currently serving in the Peru Lima Central Mission. Nate has
previously served as an elders quorum president, ward Young Men
president, ward executive secretary, bishopric counselor, high
councilor, and bishop. He currently serves as stake president in
the College Station Texas Stake, a calling he has held since 2016.
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2:30 In a previous episode, Nate talked about having digital
missionaries for the ward and the blog they created and the impact
it made. 4:30 Getting called as stake president 8:40 Their stake
has a large number of single adults. The recent changes to put
singles and students in leadership has created lots of positive
change in the singles ward. 10:45 Nate currently works for Texas
A&M and is the dean of the Mays Business School. 12:30 The role
of being a dean is about building relationships, selfless service,
and elevating the school. The values they have on campus have
created an environment similar to BYU. 19:30 Stimulating a positive
culture as a stake president. They set a vision of creating a
culture and doctrine of belonging. Including more students in
leadership opportunities even if they won’t be there very long.
22:50 Approach to mentoring bishops and helping them establish
culture in their wards 25:30 The bishop has the opportunity to
demonstrate to the youth hopeful repentance. 28:15 How can bishops
apply this idea of hopeful repentance? Let the youth know you are
proud of them for coming forward with their sins. Share hope filled
conference talks about repentance. The more modern resources the
better. 35:00 Creating a Christ centered sacrament meeting. Helping
people feel lifted up and not weighed down after sacrament meeting.
45:00 Christ is our advocate and pleads our cause. Nate shares
Doctrine & Covenants 45:3-5. 50:00 Overcoming our view that our
relationship with God is transactional. 55:00 John 5:38-40. Getting
over the checklist mentality. The scriptures are an instrument to
lead us to Jesus Christ. 1:00:40 Seeing how Jesus changes people’s
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