One of the key motivators that keeps people from starting churches is the desire for security.
The perception is that the church start situation is insecure and therefore to be avoided by all but the most hardy. Potential church starting leaders conclude they are not that hardy and therefore reject the possibility out of hand.
I think this one deserves much more than a blog entry. I just did a quick Google search on "security 'church planting' -eternal" and found that I have "only" 43,200 articles to scan. But then that is much better than "church planting" which gives me 675,000 hits. And just by the way, last month only about 10,000 searches occurred on the Internet for "church planting" but nobody added the word security to their church planting search. And also btw you should always use the advanced search capability if you want to get the best results in the first few pages of a web search.
All that just tells me that while a key inhibitor for church starting leaders is the perceived lack of security, virtually nobody is trying to eliminate the inhibitor.
Note to self: "Gary, you have to add this subject to your to do list."
Here is a start. Freedom and security are strange bed-fellows. There is no more secure place than a prison. Free room and board. Defined schedule. Homogeneous expectations. As secure as it gets. But apparently not desirable. I have never experienced staying there but visiting is enough to know a prison is an unhappy place. Of course, that is an extreme portrayal. But it is a metaphor.
Most Pastors will accept a secure job in a church at which they would not otherwise become a member. How do you spell, "prison"?
Most Pastors have an idea of how they would structure and conduct a church if they had the opportunity to do it with freedom. News flash. That is what happens when you start a church. You get to "put your money where your mouth is!"
There are a lot of things in life that are highly over-rated. One of them is security. And security often comes at the price of freedom. Freedom is a highly under-rated experience. For starters let's get our eyes on the ball of freedom and off the distraction of security.
Now that is just a small start on the subject. I won't even know everything I know about that subject until I write it down and read it back to myself. So I had better keep that subject simmering. It will come to a boil sooner if you help me by poking me with some questions.
One simple internal decision to pursue freedom first and set security further back on the list will start someone on a wonderful, colorful adventure into starting a church. Will that someone be you?
The perception is that the church start situation is insecure and therefore to be avoided by all but the most hardy. Potential church starting leaders conclude they are not that hardy and therefore reject the possibility out of hand.
I think this one deserves much more than a blog entry. I just did a quick Google search on "security 'church planting' -eternal" and found that I have "only" 43,200 articles to scan. But then that is much better than "church planting" which gives me 675,000 hits. And just by the way, last month only about 10,000 searches occurred on the Internet for "church planting" but nobody added the word security to their church planting search. And also btw you should always use the advanced search capability if you want to get the best results in the first few pages of a web search.
All that just tells me that while a key inhibitor for church starting leaders is the perceived lack of security, virtually nobody is trying to eliminate the inhibitor.
Note to self: "Gary, you have to add this subject to your to do list."
Here is a start. Freedom and security are strange bed-fellows. There is no more secure place than a prison. Free room and board. Defined schedule. Homogeneous expectations. As secure as it gets. But apparently not desirable. I have never experienced staying there but visiting is enough to know a prison is an unhappy place. Of course, that is an extreme portrayal. But it is a metaphor.
Most Pastors will accept a secure job in a church at which they would not otherwise become a member. How do you spell, "prison"?
Most Pastors have an idea of how they would structure and conduct a church if they had the opportunity to do it with freedom. News flash. That is what happens when you start a church. You get to "put your money where your mouth is!"
There are a lot of things in life that are highly over-rated. One of them is security. And security often comes at the price of freedom. Freedom is a highly under-rated experience. For starters let's get our eyes on the ball of freedom and off the distraction of security.
Now that is just a small start on the subject. I won't even know everything I know about that subject until I write it down and read it back to myself. So I had better keep that subject simmering. It will come to a boil sooner if you help me by poking me with some questions.
One simple internal decision to pursue freedom first and set security further back on the list will start someone on a wonderful, colorful adventure into starting a church. Will that someone be you?
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