First session of Day 2 at National New Church Conference ~ Ed Stetzer on Being Missional. Love Ed's passion for contextualizing ministry to a local community. Some of the highlights:
- The HOW of church planting is determined by the WHO and WHERE
- Don't plant a church in your head. Plant one in your community
- Many planters have fallen in love with another church's community
- The Gospel is the only element that is essential to every church plant
- Planters have a tendency to hold-up attendance over evangelism as success
Some personal thoughts... I don't think it's possible for church planters to be truly missional out the gate when they're moving to a new location. It's taken me 5 years to get any footholds of knowledge about our community, and I'm still figuring some things out. A guy like Erwin McManus didn't move to LA with a clear vision for Mosaic. It evolved over time through trial and error, sociological observation and personal experience.
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