Recently I listened (for a second time) to an entire six episode series on church planting made by a business podcast targeting new start ups. I really enjoyed it. I thought I’d share it with a few people so the links to the show are below. (If you listen to Podcasts already search “Startup Church Planting” in your podcast app of choice and you’ll probably find the shows easily.)
Here are a few thoughts and questions that the show revisited on my soul.
1. In my journey toward my present role in the Church (pastor of an established or “historic” church) what gifts about the development of a church body from scratch did the church plant efforts I have been involved with give me that I need to revisit?
2. What opportunity am I going to seize to encourage the church planters around me (both in my church stream and outside my group)?
3. Are there things that I am not doing because I’m at an established church that are more about my comfort level that is ignoring the real needs of the community around me (and even the church attenders here)?
Here are the Podcasts: (from summer 2018)
Pastor Chris Hooper 