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Reminders for Church Planters

Posted by Michael on the Sojourn Church Planting Blog as gleaned from the last session in the Foundations course from Global Church Advancement church planter training

  1. A Biblical View of Success:
    - A false view of success involves having big numbers and a lot of money
    - A false view of success usually is quantitative and not qualitative
    - A false view of success is built around career achievement and professional recognition
    - A biblical view of success is measured in terms of faithfulness
    - A biblical view of success involves finding one’s identity in Christ, not in finding one’s identity in one’s success.
  2. Managing Your Time vs Managing Your Life:
    - Do not prioritize your schedule, but schedule your priorities
    - Spend more time with God and with your family
    - Maybe you can show your faith in God by working less and stop trying to do so much
  3. Understand the Difference Between Your Goals & Desires:
    - Goals are within your control while desires are not
    - Work for your goals; pray for your desires
    - Sharing your faith this week 5 times is a goal, but having 100 in your church by next month is a desire
  4. Pursuing the Grace of God or the God of Grace?
    - What is the ultimate quest of your life? God or a successful ministry?
    - “Is God a means of grace in your life and ministry or is grace a means to God?”- John Piper
    - Yes, you are God’s servant and soldier, but you are also his son
  5. The Way Up is the Way Down:
    - “God is opposed to the proud but He gives grace to the humble. ” James 4:6.
    - The more you humble yourself the more God will be glorified in your life and church community.
    - Live a life of repentance.
  6. The Priority of People Over Programs:
    - Jesus’ plan to reach the world with the gospel was to invest his life in people.
    - Show your love for Jesus by loving his people (See John 21:15-17)
  7. Process Living vs Product Living:
    - Do not live for the “Next Big Thing.”
    - 99% of life is process and only 1% is product
    - Learn to find joy in the process of living each day
  8. Making the Main Thing the Main Thing:
    -     The main thing is not ministry
    - The main thing is loving God and loving people (Matt 22:37-39)

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