I am so pumped, inspired and challenged. I can’t sleep and when I pray I feel like I am in a war. God is so up to something and I truly am just so happy to be a part of it. Relevant Church hasn’t had explosive growth to start out but I am totally okay with that. It is not an easy thing to start a church and it’s definitely not easy to be a parachute drop (which means you and your wife going to a city where you no nobody and have no connections). But I am so pumped with where we are. We made it a point to build Relevant Church on a foundation of pure motivation. We did not want our foundation to be built on manipulation or deceitfulness so we have not asked anyone to switch Church’s to come to ours. We didn’t take 30 people from the wonderful Church we were apart of before we started this Church (if they sent 30 with us to help I wouldn’t have said no – ha) but because of the pure foundation I truly believe God is going to bless us. It was so important for us to start this way. We don’t count Grand Opening because that is friends and family showing their support. But the fact we are 2 weeks old and have a solid core team of 20 people and average 45 in attendance is pretty exciting to us. I know 45 doesn’t sound like a lot (and I can hear peoples chuckles when I tell them) but try showing up to a town where you don’t know anybody and in 2 weeks have 45 people coming to church – we are so pumped. I am so pumped to see what God does after 2 months, 6 months and even year. I really really am trying to figure a new way (or find a way I just don’t know about) to measure if we are successful. Counting Sunday attendance just doesn’t do it for me. I don’t care if one day we have 5,000 members- that will not get me out of bed. Jesus never sent us out to draw a crowd. How do we measure if our growth is really adding people to the kingdom of God? How do we measure if we are truly making disciples? I have no idea to these answers but am going to figure it out. I can’t even begin to explain what I feel in my spirit but I really sense God taking me to a whole new level I have never been. I’m not sure what all this means but I am so inspired, challenged and ready. Lets do this.
Posted on: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 01:53:37 +0000