A church planter friend recently sent this Theodore Roosevelt quote to Bryan and I. He too, knows the heartache that comes with having to leave a church he so lovingly and painstakingly planted. I want to pass the encouragement along to my other church planter friends- I know many of you have recently been in - or are currently in the midst of -having to leave your plants due to budget issues. Even though the quote was not originally said in the context of church planting, it applies in many ways. Thank you for daring greatly! “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
Posted on: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 19:08:41 +0000