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The Shepherd's Bench

Kofi Dartey and Randolph Adjei

Religion & Spirituality

Frequency: 1 episode/14d. Total Eps: 11

Kofi Dartey & Randolph Adjei invite you to take a seat at The Shepherd's Bench. These are two influential voices in this generation, planted on opposite sides of the globe and they are coming together to foster necessary conversations - the kind of talks that usually happen off-mic... Welcome to SBP.

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"Gen Z Is On Fire, But Where Are the Millennials?" | The Shepherd's Bench EP.011

Season 1 · Episode 11

Sunday, September 6, 2026 • Duration 01:03:00

Gen Z is hungry. They'll pay £5,000, fly across the world, do whatever it takes to be discipled. And they can't find anyone.

In Episode 11 of The Shepherd's Bench, Kofi Dartey and Randolph Adjei ask the question underneath the revival: if this generation is on fire, where is the generation meant to be raising them?

In this episode:

The Gen Z revival is real, but every big move cries for sturdy leadership
Movements led by 21-year-olds because the 35-year-olds are absent
"Is this 18-year-old leading because you couldn't find a 35-year-old?"
The boy who becomes the man of the house when his father isn't there
Michael Jackson, a stolen childhood, and what happens when you blow up too early
Why they're inheriting our problem, and how that becomes generational
They'll pay for mentorship and still can't find a mentor
Ezekiel 22:30, "I sought for a man to stand in the gap"
To the millennial who stepped off: God is calling you home
To the pastor: don't build your ministry at the cost of the people God gave you

You don't only give because you had it. Sometimes the biggest motivation is to give because you never did.

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The Shepherd's Bench is hosted by Kofi Dartey & Randolph Adjei and brought to you by KAC Studios.

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"Who Do Leaders Cry To" | The Shepherd's Bench EP.010

Season 1 · Episode 10

Sunday, August 23, 2026 • Duration 56:21

Everybody cries to their pastor. Who does the pastor cry to?In Episode 10 of The Shepherd's Bench, Kofi Dartey and Randolph Adjei open Matthew 26 and read Gethsemane as a leadership text. Jesus, surrounded by twelve, creates distance in layers: nine stay here, three come further, and then he goes alone, and weeps where nobody can hear him.In this episode:

The loneliest room is the one with a queue outside it
Gethsemane: nine, three, and the little further
Why Jesus wouldn't let even Peter, James and John hear him break
"My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even unto death" — anxiety, fear, and the humanity of Christ
How much are leaders actually allowed to share?
The line between honest vulnerability and bleeding on your people
When those closest to you fall asleep in your hardest hour
Every man of God has a story — and the compassion no prayer could build
A prayer for the leader who feels alone

You are not the first to go through it. You will not be the last. And you are not alone.

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"I Joined the Queue to See My Dad" | The Shepherd's Bench EP.009

Season 1 · Episode 9

Sunday, August 9, 2026 • Duration 57:47

At six years old, Kofi Dartey joined the counselling queue at his father's church. Five people ahead of him. Little suit, little tie, shiny shoes. When he finally got in, his dad asked what he was doing there. He said: this is the only place I can see you.

In Episode 9 of The Shepherd's Bench, Kofi and Randolph Adjei talk about the part of leadership nobody puts on the flyer, the humanity underneath the calling.

In this episode:

Are leaders born or made? "Even a leader who is born must be raised"
What leaders actually lose: it's easy to crucify sin, harder to crucify your freedom
The preacher's collar is a cuff, the bondservant's life isn't his own
Pastors' kids: when your dad is everybody's dad
The queue story, and the question it left in his father
"There were days we ate from the food bank", what people don't see behind the result
Entitlement, access, and the pastor who's expected to answer at any hour
Man of God: you are human, endowed with godly content
Where control and spiritual manipulation really come from: unaddressed insecurity
Don't be so spiritual you're no earthly good
Jesus took care of his family before the cross
The three cardinal rules: you are human, you will always be human, remember you're human

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"Bad Company Corrupts. Imagine What Good Company Could Do." | The Shepherd's Bench EP.008

Season 1 · Episode 8

Sunday, July 26, 2026 • Duration 57:10

If bad company corrupts good morals, imagine what good company could do.In Episode 8 of The Shepherd's Bench, Kofi Dartey and Randolph Adjei sit with one of the most underrated essentials of the calling: the company you keep. The people around you aren't just around you, they're shaping your sound, your direction, and what you'll be prophesying a year from now.In this episode:

The tent church: Randolph's new launch and why ministries must evolve
The layers of Jesus's company: the multitude, the 70, the 12, the 3
"You're in their company, but not their inner circle"
The independent spirit: where "I don't need anybody" really comes from
Trauma, church hurt, and the isolation they breed
"When they park their cars, they park their brains" why skills stop at the church door
Koinonia: what Acts 2:42 community actually looks like
The company of prophets: where they come from determines the sound
You'll sing whatever sound you sit around

The oil is transferred by association. Choose your company like it's your calling, because it is.

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The Shepherd's Bench is hosted by Kofi Dartey & Randolph Adjei and brought to you by KAC Studios.

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Timestamps0:00 Welcome "I was just a bass player"1:16 The tent church: Campus Rush evolves17:36 The layers of Jesus's company: 70, 12, 318:45 "I don't need anybody" the independent spirit19:20 Trauma, church hurt, and isolation21:00 "Park their cars, park their brains23:00 Koinonia, Acts 2:42 community53:50 The company of prophets: the source of the sound54:25 The hostel story: you sing what you sit around56:40 If bad company corrupts, imagine good company57:00 Outro

AI Rabonni: When ChatGPT Becomes Your Teacher | The Shepherd's Bench Ep. 007

Season 1 · Episode 7

Sunday, July 12, 2026 • Duration 01:05:50

Is AI a blessing or a crutch? And what happens when a generation starts ChatGPT-ing the sermons they were meant to receive on their knees?In Episode 7 of The Shepherd's Bench, Kofi Dartey and Randolph Adjei pick up the cliffhanger from last week: ChatGPT, AI, and the microwave generation of ministry. AI should be the garnish, not the main course. But in business circles, creative circles, and ministerial circles, the tool is quietly becoming the teacher.From there the conversation goes deep into what can't be automated: the process, the battles, the death to self, and the company that shapes your sound.In this episode:

AI is a blessing - but it's a garnish, not the main course
Microwave sermons: assembling a message without receiving the download
Why "deep" preaching is producing confused churches with no transformation
You can't become what you don't understand
When personal experience becomes doctrine - the six-hour prayer rule
Lingo culture: copying style instead of carrying substance
Underdeveloped leaders: if you can't sustain the platform, the platform will break you
A piece of cake: the layers nobody wants to work through
"I've anointed you, but you have to die" — oil without process
The power of association (and a taste of next week's conversation)

Don't ChatGPT an experience you're meant to get tarrying.

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Fathers For Sale: The Generation Using Each Other | The Shepherd's Bench Ep. 006

Season 1 · Episode 6

Sunday, June 28, 2026 • Duration 01:00:09

There's a generation of fathers looking for sons to use, and a generation of sons looking for fathers to use right back.

In Episode 6 of The Shepherd's Bench, Kofi Dartey and Randolph Adjei sit with the uncomfortable questions: why we're born again but not delivered from tradition, why ministry has become a competition, and what's quietly replacing real encounter with God.

In this episode:

Born again, but not delivered from tradition... The unrenewed mind
The competitive mindset: "I must build the next biggest church"
Why do we assume only the devil can make things grow
Ministry for honorariums... when preaching becomes a paycheck
"You're not advancing the kingdom. You're advancing your ego."
Nobody can outdo God. Nobody can outpay God.
Why kindness and soft skills don't make you less anointed
Don't ChatGPT what you're meant to get on your knees

This is Fathers For Sale. A conversation about what the next generation is inheriting - and what it's skipping.

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The Shepherd's Bench is hosted by Kofi Dartey & Randolph Adjei and brought to you by KAC Studios.

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"Wife or Knife" | The Shepherd's Bench Ep. 005

Season 1 · Episode 5

Sunday, June 14, 2026 • Duration 01:03:53

The first move of the enemy isn't to attack you. It's to offer you what you love.In Episode 5 of The Shepherd's Bench, Kofi Dartey and Randolph Adjei unpack what the modern church has confused about marriage, calling, anointing and timing, and what's actually essential underneath it all.

In this episode:

Why your calling can evolve and how to know when it's time

"When you overstay a season, you enter a cycle"

Why the church is wasting kingdom talent, turning entrepreneurs, lawyers, and creatives into intercessors and ushers

Marriage as a system, not a validation

You don't need a helper when you haven't figured out your life

Just because oil was poured on your head doesn't mean you've become

Wife or knife? The cost of choosing wrong

This isn't a sermon on singleness, marriage or ministry. It's a redefinition of what the church has been calling essential.

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"Great Preachers, Terrible Husbands" | The Shepherd's Bench Ep. 004

Season 1 · Episode 4

Sunday, May 31, 2026 • Duration 58:17

God loves all of us. But He doesn't trust all of us.

In Episode 4 of The Shepherd's Bench, Kofi Dartey and Randolph Adjei turn the lens onto leaders themselves - the journey, the gaps, and the dangers nobody warns you about when the anointing starts to grow.In this episode:

Why God doesn't trust everyone He loves
Great preachers, terrible husbands - the gap between gift and character
Kingly anointing, shepherdly positioning and the people pretending to be content
Why people are relocating churches for the wrong reasons
Anointed and immoral. Anointed and disrespectful. The dangers of the anointing
What can overpower you if you don't deal with it now

This isn't a sermon to the congregation. It's a conversation between two pastors about the people behind the pulpit.

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"Great Career, Failed Calling" | The Shepherd's Bench Ep.003

Season 1 · Episode 3

Sunday, May 17, 2026 • Duration 01:03:20

You can do many things right. Be applauded. Build a great career. And still have failed.

In Episode 3 of The Shepherd's Bench, Kofi Dartey and Randolph Adjei return to The Call, this time going deeper into the gap between what you're doing and what you were made to do. The cost of misalignment. The geography of calling. And the test the devil brings everybody.

In this episode:

How do you actually know you're called? A biblical breakdown
Purpose, calling, and career - the three things most people confuse
How money relocates you from the geography of your calling
The three stages every calling moves through
Why knowing your calling isn't the same as being ready for it
Apprenticeship ministry and the cost of cutting corners

This is The Call II. The conversation goes deeper.

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"Until You Discover Your Calling, You Haven't Started Living" | The Shepherd's Bench Ep.002

Season 1 · Episode 2

Sunday, May 3, 2026 • Duration 01:00:53

What if everything you've built, your career, your relationships, even who you married, was built on the wrong foundation?

In Episode 2 of The Shepherd's Bench, Kofi Dartey and Randolph Adjei sit down to unpack The Call - what it is, what it costs, and why so many people running from it are the very ones meant to carry it.

In this episode:

Why your calling should determine your school, your spouse, and your friends
"Mr. Suave" and "Lil T"... Life before the call
The man in the fire and the moment God gets your attention
Is ministry today a genuine pursuit of God, or has it become glamorous?
The cost of trading prayer

This isn't a sermon. It's a bench conversation.

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