Our fledgling church has been worshiping weekly for a little over a year, and I’ve been reflecting on what I’ve learned over the past couple of years of church planting. Before I started planting, I had been in full-time ministry for over a decade, and served both a small, rural church as the only pastor, and a huge suburban church as an associate.
Church planting, though, has opened my eyes to some of the essential tasks of ministry that I had been able to ignore before. These are all lessons I had heard, or read in books, and I may have even been able to parrot them—but I didn’t understand them as deeply until now.
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