After my last post I checked on a couple of other blogs I follow and found that they, too, had written about church plants. Hugh Halter's blog and Neil Cole's blog both focused on it, with Cole's blog featuring a long list of the challenges involved. Points well taken in contrast to my "church plants sometimes look like greener pastures" posting.
I have to say, however, the chaos of a missional church setting would be welcome to me. Cole's blog talks about all the weeknight meetings training different groups as they plant home churches. I'd really like to have at least one group of people prepared to be trained for such an endeavor. That's something I'd really like to work towards.
My house is abuzz today with poultry. I've been raising chickens as a sort of hobby, and today I have chicks hatching in an incubator, twenty-six new chicks and four goslings that just arrived from the hatchery, all in addition to my fifteen mature layers and my rooster, Stew. My kids are extremely excited by all this, but to tell you the truth, so am I.
I'd love to feel that way about ministry. I'd love to be caught up in the excitement of things happening at all levels, and life bursting out everywhere. I've been trying for a long time to involve everyone in our congregation in everything we are trying to do, and I think I've only frustrated them and myself. At this point, I think I really need, for the sake of productivity and my sanity, to work intensely with a very small group of people who want to explore all the possibilities of what the church could be.
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