Churches do not just spring up overnight.
We want things done FAST. Seriously, when is the last time you bought a microwavable product and panicked because it took more than five minutes to cook? What about waiting to make a right hand turn on red only to discover there is a sign telling you not too? How many people out there have high speed Internet?
Churches want to go fast too
Many people are not willing to sit around and wait on a church to do something. We want action now. If a church does not respond fast enough to controversy, we get impatient and start pointing fingers or drawing (inaccurate, often) conclusions. When a church does not plant itself and open its doors fast enough, people stop coming along for the journey.
While planting Church of the Broken, I have come to one conclusion, we are going too fast. I did not come to this conclusion alone, mind you. I have had a lot of help from other people to point this out.
But we need to plant NOW!
The only people telling me I need to open the doors to Sunday sermons is myself. I keep telling myself we have to get everything done faster than we really need to. Let me put this in perspective; I had plans to launch a church in the next 5 months. I was ready for Sunday morning. Someone asked me, "what do you plan to do for a child care?"
My brain came to a crashing halt. I had no idea.
I want to do it right.
And doing it right means I have to slow it down a bit so I can intentionally think through every single piece of this plant.
Thankfully I have wise people in my life to help me see this.
-Don-
Written by Don
Topics: Misc.