“Seekest thou great things for thyself? Seek them not.” – Jeremiah 45:5 There’s a subtle disease that infects church planters somewhere between the first core team meeting and the fifth year of ministry. It’s not burnout, though it often leads there. It’s not heresy, though it distorts our theology. It’s an identity crisis so complete […]
When You Become Your Church: The Identity Crisis Every Planter Must Face Read More »
Paul wrote to the Corinthians with a startling claim: “Though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers” (1 Corinthians 4:15). In an age of Christian content abundance, we’ve never had more teachers. What we desperately need are spiritual parents. The Crisis of Orphaned Disciples Walk into most churches on any
\n\n Paul’s charge to Timothy is startlingly simple: “And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also” (2 Timothy 2:2). Four generations of discipleship in one verse. Yet here’s what we often miss—Paul doesn’t say “the things you’ve
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