Episode 9.0 Notes: Ten Things Every Churchplanter Needs to Learn Part 2

6. Be humble

Don’t assume you’re the magical missing link for God to move in the city.

Learn from other people. Keep a teachable spirit.

Be open to criticism.

Don’t make the churchplant a show about you!

Give away responsibility and power. It’s not healthy if you do it all. They will begin to rely on you and not God.

God fights the proud, and helps the humble.

7. Authenticity is the apologetic of our time

Most questions today are emotionally driven and demand a relational answer.

The church is not the end goal, people are the end goal.

You can’t keep your true self hidden and churchplant.

8. Don’t Apologize

The pressure in a post Christian culture is to apologize for truth.

Many times what the church propagates is the traditions of men.

We cannot apologize for orthodoxy lived out in our orthopraxy.

We cannot apologize for coming to a city with the gospel.

Don’t change your message to make people feel good.

We need to walk around with a holy confidence to where God has called us.

9. Be Mean about the vision

The vision for your church plant did not come from you or a book, it came from God and needs to be fought for.

Churchplants attract people who were disgruntled at other churches, who think they can come in while a church is young and small and mold it into what they want.

People will come to church plants and try to turn it into something unhealthy because they are unhealthy.

Methodologies can change, but the the core fundamentals of the churchplant are non-negotiables.

I have problems with the vision from churched people never unchurched people.

Disgruntled people from other churches will attempt to use their presence, their money and talents to sway the vision.

If you constantly change to meet the whims of people, you will be a church with no values and vision.

If you try to please people, you will never please everyone. Please God!

10. Guard your character

Churches can rise and fall on the character of the churchplanter.

Put boundaries in place.

Keep your promises.

Have integrity financially.

Most of the community expects us to be like their worst fears of religion.

Expect increased and unexpected spiritual attacks when you churchplant.

Stay closely connected to God.

God guards our character when we stay close to Him.

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