In our most recent bootcamp, we had several veteran church planters over to my house to join with all the new church planters (guys who were about to plant). We always break the teams up - My wife, as a veteran church planter and pastor's wife, takes the women - and Todd Wilson and I take the men. Then we open it up and talk, down and dirty, about the spiritual warfare in a church plant. Wow! It is alway eye-opening. One of our trainers - a veteran planter from the east coast - shared this time how hard it has been on him to plant a church. I am used to hearing it, but the depth of his struggle (as he described it), caught me offgaurd. But simultaneously, as I heard his words, I sensed the Holy Spirit remind me of a passages from the Church Planter's Epistles (scholars call them Pastoral Epistles, but they are really written to church planters/evangelists): Endure hardship with us like a good soldier of Christ Jesus (2 Timothy 2:3). Thats right, only tough guys should plant churches.
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Tuesday, January 1, 2008
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