20 April 2011

Ready, Set, Plant? A Request for Dialogue

I have had the opportunity over the past year to attend a couple of church planting conferences. You always hear how hard it is on church planters, how they have to work so hard, wear so many hats, how so many guys burn out and leave ministry altogether, how marriages are strained, how plants fail. While thinking about this, the question that arose in my mind was, hasn't scripture already addressed these issues? Don't we see the need for a plurality of elders to spread the responsibility of leading the church? Don't we see deacons selected to help care for the practical day-to-day needs of church members to help support the elders as they pastor and teach? Isn't a church plant, after all and above all, a church? So the idea I need help working through is this: if you don't have the necessary elements of a church in place (plurality of elders, deacons, denominational affiliation or equivalent, etc), perhaps you aren't ready to plant a church.

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