Have you ever met these guys? The Church Planting Zen Masters? The Start Up Yodas? These are the guys who have spent zero time in the trenches, zero time in boot camp, zero time on the field, and 99.9 percent of their church experience in the bleachers.
Seriously, they’ve somehow learned all there is to know without ever getting tackled, ever throwing an interception, ever making a bad call, ever getting sacked, ever being stopped at 4th and 1 and last, but certainly not least, without ever even suiting up!!
Isn’t that amazing?!
I can’t figure out how they get so good…can you?
Umm, truthful, I haven’t actually seen the handy work any of these self proclaimed experts talk about. It’s always some church in a far away land that no longer exists because it imploded once they left.
But it USED to be rockin!!
So, to tell you the truth, I can’t comment much more on them—to stealthy.
But I can throw in my 2 cents from experience and what I have observed.
Unless you’re called to the ministry, it can be the flat out, most difficult, trying, frustrating, rewarding, joyful, satisfying endeavor ever!—all rolled up into one, crazy, unpredictable, mission from God. If you’re someone who needs all their ducks in a row? Forget church planting—you’re not even guaranteed sheep let alone ducks!
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