Church planting should be the ultimate aim of all missionary enterprise. It is what we are to readily anticipate when the Great Commission is fulfilled. If there is no obedience to our Master’s mission we cannot expect the birthing of New Testament churches.
While the pangs that accompany the inception of a church can be arduous and discouraging at times, they pale in comparison to the joys it brings. The fresh sense of body life, the heartfelt love that believers have for one another, and the bond of being a faith family, produces a heighten awareness of commitment to Jesus Christ and His body.
It is our prayer that the church that has been purchased by the infinite price of Christ’s blood will shake off the encumbering weights of being ingrown, sectarian, and lethargic to pursue the gospel driven vision and vigor that is so essential in planting churches.
It has been a great privilege to have been on the ground floor of two church plants over the years. Both experiences were priceless. To serve without the deadness and drag of traditionalism brings a renewed sense of spiritual reality and simplicity in the worship of God and love for the saints.
It is our prayer that the church that has been purchased by the infinite price of Christ’s blood will shake off the encumbering weights of being ingrown, sectarian, and lethargic to pursue the gospel driven vision and vigor that is so essential in planting churches.
Nothing fuels and preserves a believer’s passion for missionary initiative more than the propitiatory work of Christ. While a glimpse of Hell’s eternal torments may “jump start” an indifferent believer to the global cry of the spiritually lost, the redemptive beauties of Christ and Him crucified has far more impassioning grace to preserve missionary zeal.
