August 22, 2006

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Aug 22, 2006 8:49:49 AM | church planting

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church planting week @ bob.blog... Awhile ago I wrote an article called Why YOU Should Plant a Church. You should check it out. You should also check out Kevin Cawley's response. In it, he brings up two main ideas- not everyone is gifted, called, or even qualified to plant a church, an idea, by the way, with which I wholeheartedly agree. He also challenges me on my definition of success/failure, but I'm sticking to my guns on that one... More on who SHOULDN'T plant a church later today...
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church planting by wind and fire... (Ed. note: This started out as a post on "Who SHOULDN'T Plant a Church... sigh... there's something in me that refuses to let me write like that. I think I'm constitutionally incapable of doing anything but encouraging people to plant churches and trust that God will let my words take root where they need and nowhere else... ) While I want to do everything in my power to encourage church planting, I have to admit, Kevin Cawley is right. Not everyone should plant a church. But it's not as though church planting is only for the spiritual elite, the Navy Seals of pastoring, right? If you are qualified to be a pastor, that is, gifted and called and not disqualified by anything... then you could be a church planter. The only thing you need to ask is- do I have the brass to take the risk, to leave the known for the unknown, embark on something that very well may never take root... something that in spite of all my efforts, prayers, sweat and tears, may still fall apart after a short time? After 2 1/2 years of doing this thing I've come to a couple of conclusions about who...

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