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