Are church planters recruited?
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January 15, 2009, 8:58 am
Filed under: Networking
Filed under: Networking
I’m often encouraged and receive funds to recruit church planters. Problem I’ve found over the years is that my best planters were not recruited. They have some sense of a mysterious, hard to describe, spiritual leading, then they dug up information an found me. (Yes, they dug me up.)
The recruits tend to focus on a paycheck. The called tend to focus on multiplying Christ’s followers. But that’s just my experience. Those are not definitive or final judgments, just tendencies.
I’d like a greater measure of objectivity. I’m curious about your experience. Were you led spiritually and then found some help or did someone (me, perhaps) draw you into starting a church?
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I feel called to start of church. I initiated all the conversations with DOMs and pastors and others. I can see how God has worked many of the financial issues out for me already. I would assume no one would attempt this unless they truly felt called of God. It is a lot of work.
Comment by Jim Parker April 30, 2009 @ 7:29 pmI was invited to attend a church plant 10 years ago, reluctantly went, and have been setting up chairs on Sunday’s ever since. Soon after I started a Bible Study in an apartment complex and my church then said, “We’d like to pay you $600 a month to do what you’re doing.” My response, “You’re going to pay me to do this! OK.”
A call to the unchurched, hunger to join God on the frontier instead of behind the stained glass, vision for transforming cultural norms led me to church starting. The pay check was lagniappe.
Now starting my second church with a family has been different. However, I recently had to cut my salary because of some unfulfilled promises (part of the territory if you want to be a church planter). But I did it without blinking because of the call, the need, confidence in God’s sufficiency. The dual promises associated with the Great Commission have been important to me – “All authority in heaven and earth is given to me. Go therefore….” and “I am with you always.”
Comment by Lane Corley January 23, 2009 @ 1:50 pm