My Top 10 List for Church Planters
1. JESUS LOVES YOU! Jesus doesn't express His love for you, nor how pleased He is with you by how big your church becomes. He expressed His love for you on the cross, and continually displays His love for you by abiding in you and with you throughout your life (John 15:9-11; Romans 8:39). 2. JESUS WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU! (Matthew 28:20) During one of my darkest and loneliest times in ministry, I awoke one morning with the weight of the world on my shoulders, uncertainty filled my heart, and pressure was pressing in on every side. In that moment God calmed my spirit with His loving, encouraging, still small voice by saying, "I am with you. I have not forgotten about you. I will lead you through this" (cf. Isaiah 41:10) 3. SURROUND YOURSELF WITH WISE COUNSELORS (Proverbs 11:14, 15:22). A wise friend once told me this when I was in the midst of a struggling church plant. "Did you think it would be easy and all uphill? What you are experiencing is not un...