We've left the otts. How in the world do you spell "ott"? The single digit numbers in the new decade? It doesn't matter. Anyway, we've started the new year 2010. This year is guaranteed to be a chaotic year in the life of Central Bible Church. Last night I communicated a core concept of church planting ministry. This core concept is this: For 1.5 years CBC has been operating under the guise that I am the church planter and the 10-30 people who come each week, are attending the church plant, Central Bible Church. This is all backwards. I've learned a great truth this past year through reading and through thinking through the church planter ministry. Here's the sum total of all that I've learned in my short 1.5 years in Central... I'm not the church planter with people attending my church plant, but instead those who feel called to Central Bible Church, those who have been led of the Lord to be a part of this ministry, those who feel a calling of God to be a part of a church that is committed to seeing people transformed by the power of the Holy Spirit, through the person of Jesus Christ for the glory of God, those who are a part of our fellowship are the church planters. They are called to the church planting ministry. If this church is planted successfully, if we beat the 80% (or whatever it is) failure rating of church plants, it is because the people have planted the church successfully through the Lord's power and will. My job, what I have been called to is to lead, to preach, to teach, to guide, to instruct this group of church planters which the Lord has led to be a part of this ministry.
I am convinced that God wants us to do something bigger than ourselves. I am convinced that God wants us to make disciples. I am convinced that we will do great things in the city of Central if we work, sacrifice, and rely upon the Lord to continue to move in and through CBC in 2010. Won't you join us and see God use you and move!
