Episode 7.0 Notes: Interview With David Pearson
I don’t see a church plant as failed if we see lives changed.
God doesn’t call us to success, He calls us to obedience.
When things don’t happen the way we expected, we term ourselves as a failure.
You don’t have one shot at churchplanting.
Failure can be a great training ground for success.
A “failed” church plant can be a major bruise to your ego.
Be bold and courageous and know that God is with you.
I had to make sure my wife was onboard.
Make sure God is speaking to your spouse and not just you.
It is easy to move from being a church plant to being an established church and stop doing the things that got you there.
We get too focused on Sunday services and forget the key elements of being a churchplant.
A church plant stops being a church plant when it stops thinking like a churchplant.
What makes a church plant successful is dependency on God and a hunger to be in the community.
When we get enough critical mass we start losing our outward focus and dependence on God.
When you’re getting started you are always interested in meeting people and investing in people and often we get sidetracked by the Sunday service.
The biggest thing I look for in a potential church planter is calling.
Teachability is key. No church planter knows as much as they think they do.
When we come in thinking we know all the answers we don’t depend on God.
A church planter must depend on God, because ultimately it is God’s church not our church.
What does the Holy Spirit want you to do?
There are so many resources for planting now it’s easy to say I’ve seen this done somewhere else let me cookiee cutter that into my context.
Every community is different. Every area is unique.
There is not a way to start a church. There is the way God created you to create a church in the place He called you to.
If we say this is what a book or training told me to do we’re losing that dependence on God.
God created us all different. We have to look at how God uniquely made us to understand how He wants us to plant.
No one knows your area as well as God knows your area.
If you rely on a person to give you the answers, if God calls them away, you won’t have someone there to give you the answers. The Spirit will never leave you.
Spiritual attacks are going to come when God is up to something in your churchplant.
The enemy attacks you wherever your weakness is.
The enemy’s attacks are financial, physical, relational and emotional.
One of the enemy’s attacks is to get into our heads and tell us “we can’t” instead of remembering that our God can!
A church planter is a walking target for spiritual attack.
Have a verse that you can go back and lean on.
Some days churchplanting just sucks.
Sometimes that clear sense of calling is the only thing that keeps you planting.
The biggest lie planters are believing is a misunderstanding of success. Many times planters see planting as an opportunity to have a platform to be famous.
Planters think it is about Sunday morning service, but it is about disciples who make disciples.
Planters develop unhealthy timelines. God calls us to a daily obedience.
As pastor, the lies we believe become the lies our church believes.
We need to look for the eternal impact we are making in lives, not the short term “big” success that our ego’s want to see.
“Only God’s eyes are precise enough to tell the difference between success and failure.” -Anton Chekov
Don’t give up!
Don’t measure success by what other people think.
Stay focused on making disciples.
You can’t plant your church. It’s God’s church let Him plant it.
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