Episode 2.0 Notes: Interview with Aaron Harvie

https://www.highview.org/staff/aaron-harvie

Churchplanting has become the new normal.

The team aspect in churchplanting has been a welcome change.

Churchplanting has become celebrated, which is a huge change from a few years ago.

Emotional, spiritual and physical health are all connected.

Allow time for you and your family to fall in love with the city where you’re planting. Enjoy the city in which you live.

What brings you life? How can you do that in your city?

Stop laying hands on the wrong people. I was so desperate for leaders, I overlooked a lot of red flags.

I compromised on waiting for the right person.

Instead of how to gather a crowd, I would focus on how we are making people passionate followers of Jesus.

I was always looking for the silver bullet. There is no silver bullet.

God grows a church out of the mundane, not out of the over the top miraculous.

You have to stop looking at man, and start looking at God.

Do the small things like they are big things.

Comparison is the thief of joy.

“[God] never sends the same wave twice.” -C.S. Lewis

The number one lie church planter’s believe is that numbers are your identity.

I thought my family would fall in love with the city as fast as I did. I had to be patient with them.

We think it would be easier to plant somewhere else. It’s hard to plant everywhere.

Thinking it is easier somewhere else distracts us from our calling to this place.

Being the founding pastor of a church gives you a level of authority that you will never have in another church.

In an established church, you are not the pastor, you are the next pastor. Whether you like it or not, there is a comparison.

In a church plant, you can stay laser focused on one thing. In an established church there are so many competing ideas.

Churchplanting taught me the power of a clear vision.

God has called you to focus on His presence over your ability.

There are lessons I learned on the field that I never would have learned if I took a more comfortable path in an established church.

There are things God will not reveal to you unless you take a step of faith.

God is more interested in what He is going to do in you than He is about what He’s going to do through you.

Referenced Books/Resources

Bob Logan’s The Churchplanter’s Toolkit

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