9 Things You Need To Know In Order to Plant a Church

OBEY

I used to be a conference junkie thinking that somehow I would find the magic bullet to ministry. I wanted ministry to be easy. I wanted ministry to make an impact. I wanted lives to be changed. I wanted it to be exciting and fun. Often ministry ultimately ended in being disheartened.

After about 15 years of ministry I went on a conference fast. I pledged to not go to another conference until I actually had the influence necessary to do what I was being inspired to do. What began to register over the last five years of that fast is that ultimately my satisfaction in being a minister was intimately tied to my being obedient to God’s call on my life. It had very little to do with the other stuff I was chasing.

It may never happen, but if one day someone asks me to give a talk at one of those conferences or a publisher asks me to write a book about how to go about planting a church I’m sure I’d be able to come up with a list of ten or even 1000 things that had to be in place for Regeneration to be successful. However, ultimately, and I mean essentially, the only thing that really matters is OBEDIENCE.

It doesn’t matter if it is doing ministry, planting a church, raising a family, building a passionate and faithful marriage all comes down to OBEDIENCE.

If God calls and your spouse affirms that calling, then refuse to hesitate to go to the place He has called you and do the thing He has called you to do no matter what anyone else says.

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“Does the Lord take pleasure in burnt offerings and sacrifices

as much as he does in obedience?

Certainly, obedience is better than sacrifice;

paying attention is better than the fat of rams.” Samuel to Saul (1 Samuel 15:22)