{"id":66867,"date":"2023-11-07T14:06:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T20:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=66867"},"modified":"2023-11-07T14:07:56","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T20:07:56","slug":"the-church-planters-second-priority-raising-up-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=66867","title":{"rendered":"The Church Planter\u2019s Second Priority: Raising Up Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">About three weeks into my work as the leader of a church plant\/revitalization, I was able to put words to something that had been bugging me. Our group of fifteen was made up of people who had come from the sending church as well as a few remaining folk from the congregation we were trying to revitalize. Some members of the group were happy and joyful servants; others were skeptical that it was going to \u201cwork\u201d but were willing to give it a try; and still others were distrustful and unhappy.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:225,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Yet the nagging feeling I finally was able to put into words: as dedicated as some of these people were, no one in the church cared as much as my wife and I did.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:225,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">That\u2019s not meant as a criticism of others. It\u2019s simply the reality of church planting. For a church planter, the work can be all-consuming. It combines your religion with your career and your livelihood. The stakes feel very high, and it\u2019s unrealistic to expect other people to be as invested as you in the church\u2019s viability. I know from my own experience and from talking to other church planters that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By developing other leaders who can teach, disciple, evangelize, counsel, and shepherd the flock, you raise up others who can care for the health of all the church members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":332,"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,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[793],"tags":[4806,5673],"class_list":["post-66867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9marks","tag-church-planting-revitalization","tag-mike-mckinley","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66867","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\/332"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66867"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66869,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66867\/revisions\/66869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}