I recently had the opportunity to connect with an amazing team of church planters. They were spending the day together praying, sharing stories and learning about how to multiply disciples as they planted new communities of faith. One of their leaders asked me to stop by and introduce myself. As we were talking about how important it is to cultivate a healthy, Jesus-centered culture from the very beginning of any new church plant, our conversation began to focus on how important it is to invest time into growing healthy leaders.
The process of seeing Christ fully formed in someone is a messy. But it's worth it. In this video, Brad McKoy (Author of Culture of the Few) and Guy Glass from Cornerstone Church (St. Pete) discuss the victories and difficulties faced in light of seeing people transformed by Jesus.
"It sounds like you are living a pretty integrated life." I had never really thought about that phrase before, but I knew exactly what he meant the moment that he said it. In fact, it is one of my favorite parts of following Jesus.
I don’t know where William Penn was when he first began to pray in the late 1600’s for “room for such a holy experiment.” Maybe he was in his father’s home in County Cork, or maybe it was when he was imprisoned in the Tower of London. It doesn’t really matter where he was, but today, I sit in the answer to that prayer. I pray that God would give us the courage and conviction to pray prayers that future generations can live in.
