“If a genie gave you only one wish, what would you wish for?”
The wise man, of course, knows how to respond: “I’d wish for more wishes.”
“You’re not allowed to wish for more wishes,” The questioner says. And so the wise man knows how to respond again: “I’d wish for more genies.”
As a church planter, I get asked from time to time, “If you could give a young church planter only one piece of advice, what would it be?”
I always give the same response: “Make sure an established and healthy church becomes your sending church” (although I prefer the term “parent church”). This is a wise man’s way of wishing for more wishes because a healthy parent church will give a young church planter a lifetime’s worth of advice. It’s like having infinite genies!
WE DIDN’T WANT TO BE ORPHANS
The Bible is rich with metaphors to explain how a healthy church should function. When it comes to church planting, the metaphor of the church as a body (Rom. 12:5) is rich with real-life implications.
A church plant is a body. It’s has all the constitutive parts, but generally speaking it’s a body that’s not yet fully
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