If you pay any attention to the land of church planting, you\u2019ll quickly begin to wonder if business mogul Jim Collins has taken control of its command center. Phrases like \u201ccustomer-to-owner,\u201d \u201cchurch launch,\u201d \u201cpreview services,\u201d and \u201centrepreneurial\u201d have become ubiquitous, whereas those wonderfully powerful phrases we hear from Paul\u2014\u201cambition to preach the gospel,\u201d \u201cshepherd the flock of God among you,\u201d \u201cpreach the Word!\u201d\u2014seem to have been forgotten.<\/p>\n
This is unfortunate because what\u2019s needed to plant a church isn\u2019t the wisdom of Jim Collins, but the gospel of Jesus Christ and the Word that testifies to that gospel. A cheap shot, I know, but listen\u2014if we\u2019re going to enjoy the pleasure of God in planting a church, then we need to forget about the practices of men which promise to gather crowds quickly and instead mine the depths of God\u2019s Word in order to build a people intentionally.<\/p>\n
Below I offer three principles we should all consider so that we might plant churches for the infinite pleasure of God\u2019s glory over and against our own profit.<\/p>\n
Bible, Not Business<\/strong><\/p>\n God\u2019s Word is sufficient, even for church planting. Whatever practices we need to give ourselves to are right there in the Bible,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here are three principles we should all consider so that we might plant churches for the infinite pleasure of God\u2019s glory over and against our own profit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":637,"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],"class_list":["post-66930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9marks","tag-church-planting-revitalization","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\/66930","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\/637"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66930"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66932,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66930\/revisions\/66932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}