However, constraints may soon bring your dreams back to earth with a bump. The skills, gifting, money, times, property and other things at your disposal, will enable and also constrain how you can express church.
You might start to feel frustrated that this new church can’t be ‘complete’ from the start. Does it need to be? Are the existing churches ‘complete’ in fully expressing church through their life? If all churches are ‘a work in progress’ then are there minimum requirements for your church plant to have in place from day one?
Caution: once you have launched a regular public event in your church plant, such as a Sunday service, you will find your resources sucked into sustaining it, and increased energy needed to keep the show on the road. Church plants often have a private phase before going public. If you do wish to go public with a church service be aware of the consequences and how difficult it is to reverse such a step.
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