A few years ago I wrote an article called Why You Should Plant a Church. It's gotten around the interwebs a bit, and I'm still regularly encouraged by folks I meet who tell me that article was a big piece of their story, their journey towards planting a church.
Recently I got a chance to speak to a church planting bootcamp on that subject- Why Plant Churches? I basically reworked and supplemented that article for a roughly 40 min. talk.
If you are interested, here's the audio. Thanks to Ecclesia for having me and for posting this!
I listened to this and it was great. Even though I don't plant churches I could really relate to stepping out on faith. I don't want to look back on my life and realize I never took that leap of faith. I have personally, been challenged lately to step out in faith. God has been leading me into uncharted waters so to speak and I have experienced some fear in that, and what if it's a mistake? But faith calls us to action and sometimes that doesn't always feel 'safe'. But at the same time I would much rather look back and know I took a risk for my faith than just coast along never leaping or allowing myself the challenge of a faith not lived.
Posted by: michelle | June 23, 2009 at 02:30 PM
Thanks for sharing this! We are in the early phases of considering a church plant and this was an awesome encouragement :) Thanks.
Posted by: BeckyA | June 23, 2009 at 08:56 PM