Saturday, April 19, 2008

Church Planting

The third word I got at the women's conference was: "You will be involved in a church plant". Ha ha!! When Cam and I went to the Cause Conference last year (largely devoted to church planters) I was super reluctant to even go because, "I'm not a church planter!" So when I heard this word given to me by the same woman who confirmed the other two that I had already been feeling directly from Jesus I had to laugh.

I don't really have much to say about this because I don't know enough yet. I was surprised by my own willingness to accept it and not fight God on this one. I just laughed and said, "I don't know if God could have picked three harder things to do..."

1. Worship
2. Teach
3. Church Plant

So there you have it. I only have a glimpse of how I'm going to get started on these three but I fully accept them and am now in the process of asking for more songs, more teachings and I trust that when the church plant I'm supposed to be involved in arrises God will make it clear.

Oh, gosh. So for all of my family and friends that have no idea what I'm talking about when I say church plant: a church plant is basically when a group of people prepare to start a new church "from scratch", then they go out and do it. Sometimes it involves moving far away, sometimes it's the next town over - wherever the planters feel like God is calling them to. Any questions, please feel free to ask!!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hmmmm... I'm reminded of the conversation we had over lunch at the retreat... how challenging it can be to wait and watch as God reveals how all of the different passions of our hearts and our spouse's hearts can merge into one beautiful life together. I see that in your words... it's totally happening!!!!