ChurchETHOS

Nathan Creitz, in his blog ChurchETHOS poses an important exercize (see below):

To see my interaction with that question go to http://churchethos.com/church-planting/one-month-to-a-new-church-plant/. I’m not sure my answer is going to be completely satisfying to everyone. What do you think?

Church Planting Exercise: If you only had one month to start a church, what would you do with your time?

Let’s add some context: You find out that your town doesn’t have a church. You may very well be the only follower of Jesus. You know that you should love God, love people, and make disciple-making disciples. You have no team and no resources other than food, clothing and shelter. What do you do?

Before answering the question, let me also say that I’m curious to hear from people in the missional and attractional church planting camps (and all the other church plants that don’t fall neatly into one of those two categories).

I should also point out that this is simply an exercise. I know it is God who establishes His church. This is a fun activity to help us think through what is most important to us about church planting (plus I’m hoping you’ll help me with some good ideas!

So, what are your thoughts? Would you spend your time on budgets, buildings, and bodies? Would you spend your time in prayer? Would you spend your time on relational evangelism, event evangelism, servant evangelism, or mass marketing? Would you spend your time on demographics and ethnographies?

What would you do?

Starting tomorrow in thejesusvirus, a series entitled: Why Simple Churches Don’t Work.

This series will explore common simple church planting mistakes. If I’ve included it, my friends or I have done it. Perhaps I should subtitle it: Mistakes We’ve Made along the Way. Don’t misunderstand me. Simple church planting works, but it doesn’t always work, and it seldom ends up looking like we expect.

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