{"id":34927,"date":"2021-06-02T08:52:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T13:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=34927"},"modified":"2021-06-02T09:00:09","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T14:00:09","slug":"five-reasons-to-pastor-a-old-church-even-with-all-its-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=34927","title":{"rendered":"Five Reasons to Pastor a Old Church, Even With All Its Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"

Driving a new car is way more exciting than climbing into your 15-year-old jalopy, and walking into a new house is far more gratifying than coming home to your old fixer-upper with its honey-do list. So I get it: starting a new church is exciting, especially when compared to taking an established church with all its problems.<\/p>\n

Sure enough, church planting has seemed to be all the rage for the last twenty years. But I want to take just a moment to offer five reasons that aspiring and existing pastors should consider before deciding to plant.<\/p>\n

FIVE REASONS TO PASTOR A CHURCH THAT ALREADY EXISTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Many established churches eagerly desire a vocational pastor.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I live in East Texas, and I know several churches without a senior pastor. Simply put, these churches are ripe for the picking. You don\u2019t have to form a core team, you don\u2019t need to raise funds, you don\u2019t need to persuade a commissioning agency, and you don\u2019t even need to figure out where you\u2019re going to meet for the next six months. Everything and everyone are assembled and waiting.<\/p>\n

2. Speaking of meeting space, most established churches have buildings. (Listen to this Pastors Talk episode<\/p>\n

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Starting a new church is exciting, especially when compared to taking an established church with all its problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[793],"tags":[312],"class_list":["post-34927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9marks","tag-leadership","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34927"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34929,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34927\/revisions\/34929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}