2009
The Calling of a Church Planter – Mark Driscoll
The first one is mandatory. One other is needed as well (not every one).
- Have I responded to the gospel call & received the Spirit?
- Is the Holy Spirit out ahead of me planting the church?
- Is my church planting call obvious to other godly leaders? (Acts 2:14)
- Has God confirmed my church plant by showing up in miraculous power? (Acts 3 & 4)
- Am I reaching lost people to start my plant? (Acts 8:5-9, 12)
- Has Jesus showed up & told me to plant? (Acts 9:15-16)
- Has God called me to plant through a vision? (Acts 10-11:18; 16:9-10)
- Has God providentially relocated me to plant? (Acts 11:19-21)
- Is God sending me to plant because my church does not much need me? (Acts 13:1-3)
- Is God calling me to plant because I am wasting my time in a toxic place? (14:1-7)
- Am I called to be a catalytic church planter or plant a church planting church center?(Acts 14:23-26)
- Has God called me to plant by giving me a deep burden for a city/people? (Acts 17:16)
- Has God called me to plant by giving me a core group? (Acts 18:7-8)
Examining myself for these, #1 is a definite.
#4 and #8 – Mom getting healed of her tumor was definitely miraculous and that pulling us back to Ann Arbor is the relocation part
#9 – I think our departure from New Life goes here. There wasn’t much need for me at a college student church when I feel called to reach people like my neighbors and co-workers
#11 – The latter “church planting church center”. One of my dreams is to be the pastor of a grandparent church.
#12 – Most definitely. I can’t imagine planting anywhere but Ann Arbor, MI
I can’t wait to see how God will move over the next months and years.
