We officially started attending this 5 month school this past Saturday. Brian Bloye is pastor and Jim Akins leads the school. It is fabulous stuff! It has all the nuts and bolts a planter needs to make it happen. Additionally, God is all over these guys! Some great statements:
- You need 100 names of people praying for you.
- When you get down and discouraged, this is the time you will be hit with your besetting sin.
- Never respond to personal attacks.
- People like choices- It takes all kinds of churches to do different types of ministries in different areas of a town.
- If you’re here to start a church for Christians, you’re in the wrong place.
- If your church shut down today, would your town miss you?
- Church Planting is one of the greatest adventures that a pastor will ever undertake.
- Church Planting is an adventure that will keep your prayer life up to date, challenge your faith, and give you the most exhilirating feeling imaginable.
- Sometimes the most dangerous place to be is in the center of God’s will. -Erwin McManus
- This whole county belongs to God. Don’t be afraid to start another church in your community.
- Celebrate with everybody.
- Church Planting is Kingdom work.
- Ranchers take new territorty (church planters); Shepherds take care of the flock (pastoring established churches).
- Our job is surrender.
- I believe if you’re church planting, you are doing the will of God, if, you are walking with God.
- Church Planting is the most rewarding thing God could call you to do.
- Church Planting is the best evangelistic strategy known to man. -Peter Wagner
- Church Planting was the New Testament strategy for fulfilling the Great Commission.
- No county in America has more Christians today than it did a decade ago. (Wowww!)
