A few things I wish every POTENTIAL Church Planter knew - Part 2.

So, I started posting some thoughts on church planting yesterday that have now turned into several days worth of thoughts that I will continue posting until God says stop. A few planters who read this blog read yesterday's post and liked it right away because it rang true with them. And I am sure that one or two church planters who read my blog may have been a little ticked off and that's OK as long as it got you thinking.

Now, if you didn't get ticked yesterday this just might be the one that pushes you over the edge. One of the BIGGEST things I wish I could tell every potential church planter BEFORE they plant is this - Just Because you dreamed it, doesn't mean you should do it! Go ahead and get your fit over with and take 2 more minutes to finish reading this. One of the most detrimental occurrences taking place within the church today is young passionate ministers who dream of the way church should be and then make the mistake of confusing that dream with a call. You are thinking right now "NATE what in the world are you talking about?!" Well, a dream of what should be and a call to make it happen are two TOTALLY different things. "That's not BIBLICAL NATE!" Really maybe you should take a minute to read 2 Samuel 7:10-13. David dreamed of doing something great for his God. He dreamed of building a place for the people to come and worship. It was a good dream... A GOD dream. But God sent word to David in regards to executing that dream and said... "NO I want someone else to do it"!

The truth is that if you are dreaming of it, you may be called to do it! But there is also a real good chance that what you are dreaming is something God has already laid plans for. I know that recently my wife and I saw this lived out in front of us when we ate lunch with a great ministry couple who have now moved to Myrtle Beach, SC. They told us that after several years of dreaming of a church for this area they began to ask God if perhaps they were supposed to stay here and plant a church. God said NO! Then, one day they ended up at Breakthrough and after a few weeks came to realize why God said no - because in their words "the church we envisioned was the very thing Breakthrough is!"

So, before you start that church ask yourself - "Is this my dream or my call? Could the very think I want to start actually already be planned for someone else in the Heart of God or even already in the works and I just don't know it yet?"

Something to think about!

~PN