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Episode 13 Notes: Things That Make a Churchplanter Smile
God knows how to party!
1. Life transformation in people you have been investing in make church planters smile!
When we see people’s life trajectory radically changed by encountering Christ through you, that makes you smile!
People reading the Bible for the first time makes me smile!
Watching people grow and produce spiritual fruit is exciting!
When you don’t celebrate what has happened you will focus on what hasn’t happened and get discouraged.
The work of the church is to make disciples of Jesus. The work of humanity is to worship God.
We should celebrate the gap between where people were and how far they have come, not how far they still have to go.
We have to celebrate more things than baptisms.
Spiritual growth moves people from all about themselves, to all about God, to all about others.
2. Other church planters make church planters smile!
It is easy to get isolated as a church planter, but you rob yourself of the smiles another planter could bring you.
The common spiritual warfare of church planting has a way of bonding brothers.
3. When something you dreamed about becomes a reality!
When a vision goes from idea to implementation it makes you smile!
Never stop casting vision.
“One God idea is better than a million good ideas.” -Mark Batterson
A church plant is a God idea planted in a church planter to be birthed through a planter by the power of God.
4. Seeing “God things” makes a church planter smile.
When God does something despite our skills or planning it reminds us that the results are up to God.
It lessens the burdens on us when we see God do what we cannot.
Our Christianity is to often explainable.
5. What you learn about God through church planting makes a church planter smile!
Churchplanting forces you to rely on God like never before which grows your faith.
Your theology becomes more robust by churchplanting.
Tweet about us! Use the hashtag #flannel&beards
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Episode 13 Notes: Things That Make a Churchplanter Smile
God knows how to party!
1. Life transformation in people you have been investing in make church planters smile!
When we see people’s life trajectory radically changed by encountering Christ through you, that makes you smile!
People reading the Bible for the first time makes me smile!
Watching people grow and produce spiritual fruit is exciting!
When you don’t celebrate what has happened you will focus on what hasn’t happened and get discouraged.
The work of the church is to make disciples of Jesus. The work of humanity is to worship God.
We should celebrate the gap between where people were and how far they have come, not how far they still have to go.
We have to celebrate more things than baptisms.
Spiritual growth moves people from all about themselves, to all about God, to all about others.
2. Other church planters make church planters smile!
It is easy to get isolated as a church planter, but you rob yourself of the smiles another planter could bring you.
The common spiritual warfare of church planting has a way of bonding brothers.
3. When something you dreamed about becomes a reality!
When a vision goes from idea to implementation it makes you smile!
Never stop casting vision.
“One God idea is better than a million good ideas.” -Mark Batterson
A church plant is a God idea planted in a church planter to be birthed through a planter by the power of God.
4. Seeing “God things” makes a church planter smile.
When God does something despite our skills or planning it reminds us that the results are up to God.
It lessens the burdens on us when we see God do what we cannot.
Our Christianity is to often explainable.
5. What you learn about God through church planting makes a church planter smile!
Churchplanting forces you to rely on God like never before which grows your faith.
Your theology becomes more robust by churchplanting.
Tweet about us! Use the hashtag #flannel&beards
Twitter and Instagram @beardsflannel
Email us at [email protected]