Justin Buzzard » God Mission Worship Church Church Planting Acts 29

Earlier this year I wrote the post, Top 10 Reasons Not to Join a Church Plant, which received a lot of attention and significantly helped and protected our 44-day-old church plant.

 

In the same spirit, I now offer you my
Top 10 Reasons to Join a Church Plant:

1. If you want to see Jesus do something new and are sick of the status quo.

2. If you dream of being part of something bigger than yourself.

3. If you want to get into a fight/enter a battle for the kingdom of Christ.

4. If you feel a constant itch to see people who don’t know Jesus come to know Jesus and you believe church planting is the best way for the gospel to advance.

5. If you want to give your time, money, energy, and talents to starting something new and you want to make sacrifices to see a mission to succeed.

6. If you fully support the vision, mission, doctrine, and leadership of a church plant.

7. If you want your faith to grow and you want God to fundamentally meddle with and change your life.

8. If you want to love your city.

9. If you want to watch God move in ways you never imagined and you want an adventure (with all it’s discomfort and risk).

10. If you’re not afraid to bank your life on Matthew 16:18 (“I [Jesus] will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it”).

 

Many thanks to some members at Garden City Church who gave and inspired some of the ideas for this list.

 

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This article is adapted from Justin's blog post.

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