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Everything I needed to know about church planting, I learned in Underoos.
Song of the Month: “Let it go” Frozen soundtrack Ok so maybe not EVERYTHING…but a lot. It’s the beginning of 2014, I’m on my second day of being forty-one years old and I’m realizing that who I am is really so connected to who I was as a silly little eight year old running around…
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You know you’re NOT a church planter if…
Song of the week: If We are the Body: By Casting Crowns From time to time I come across starry eyed young men and woman who are sure they are called to church plant. I love it. I love to see the enthusiasm and excitement for the lost of this generation. The burden they feel…
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TERRIBLE TWOS VERSUS TERRIFIC TODDLERS
So here we are. Year two of our church plant. The excitement of the first year with all the cute little “firsts”(like new believers) and the not so cute little “firsts” (like first demoniacs) is over and we are now heading into life as we know it. A bouncing, budding, baby church.…
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A PLATE OF BLACKENED VEGGIES
A Plate full of blackened Veggies Song of the month for me: Worn by Tenth Avenue West: Struggle I tell my girl every evening when her dancing fingers are doing their veggie vanishing act around her cooked veggies, “Baby, just try em. You just ate some while we were cooking em.” But no. In her…
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HOSPITAL OR YACHT CLUB
Which is it? Our proposed church plant? Hospital or Yacht Club? What is our objective at the end of one year? Is it that we would have enough money to pay a Pastor full time? Maybe two Pastors and a worship leader? Open a coffee shop? Buy great crafts for the Sunday school? I had…
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I SMELL SMOKE
I smell smoke…. After a few whiffs around I realized it was me. If I had been 16 rather than 39, I would have had some serious explaining to do. I smelt like the rich,thick,smokey aroma of someone who’d stayed far too long in a late night bar….yet I’d only had one chai tea latte…
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THE DISCIPLESHIP OF THE CROSS
“Pick up your cross and follow me” …and stop being a goofball.Last week I found myself mulling over this profound phrase. Like a Child turning over a shinny new penny in my hand, I thought and thought about what this could possibly mean for me. What would I do with it and how could it…
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YOU KNOW YOU’RE A CHURCH PLANTER WHEN…
You know you are a church planter/ Apostle when… You look around at your church of five people and get excited. When new people come to your church, you get unsettled when they tell you they are already Christians. The back of your car is filled with coffee pots, sound equipment, random items left behind…
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THOSE WHO SOW IN TEARS…
“Those who sow in tears shall reap with shouts of joy.” I’m really enjoying comparing the birth of a church plant to the nine week gestation period of a pregnant woman and early months of life….mainly the fact that the emotions are all over the place and there is no real logic to the pain…then…
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A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF A CHURCH PLANTER
“The people we love to read about in the Bible are impressive because they battled through the challenges.” David Branon. I read this in “Our daily Bread” the other morning and I figured this was as good a place as any to start my “Year in the life of a church planter” blogging for the…