Why do pastors so often treat congregations with the impatience and violence of developers building a shopping mall instead of the patient devotion of a farmer cultivating a field? The shopping mall will be abandoned in disrepair in fifty years; the field will be healthy and productive for another thousand if its mysteries are respected by …
As theStory transitions away from having anyone at the reigns it allows us to practice and experiment with different ways of allowing the church to take on a life of its own. I’ve only ever really known church in a few limited fashions, mostly being operated and led by specific leaders (usually a very specific …
This is part of a series entitled Confessions of a Church Planter, all the posts from this series are listed below. I wrote a post two years ago entitled Thoughts on Paying Pastors. I just re-read it and I think that it is pre-requisite reading to this post. So go read it first. The comments are just …
This is my first post in my Confessions of a Church Planter series. When Darryl and I first were throwing around the idea of starting a church we went to a conference in Toronto called Mosaic in 2005. We hadn’t really understood what we were getting ourselves into. We walked in and were bombarded with …
I’ve been around the church planting scene now for five years and I’ve been noticing trends amongst church planters, habits in myself and reactions by regular church folks that I think I can offer some insight into a world that seems to be sparking the interest of Christians more and more as of late. So …