Many church planters tell me that they hear this question a lot. They have people telling them: There are plenty of churches, why don’t you work with them instead of starting your new church? I remember having a conversation with a guy who was kind and helpful. I thought that he would be excited that I was a pastor planting a new church. His first comment after I told him that I was a church planter was: “Aren’t there plenty of churches around there anyway?”
A couple of answers to these types of queries: First, simply, No, there are not nearly enough churches. and Second, there is a drought and desperate need for the kind of church that we are going to plant.
The truth that far too many people are not aware of is that new churches bring a disproportionately larger number of people to a new relationship with Christ. When it comes down to it, this is my desire, goal and purpose. Established churches are busy placating the people who pay their bills, and keeping the attenders happy by offering the right kind of classes for them. A new church offers what they offer on behalf of the people who are not even in the door yet. A new church looks and the community and culture as they are now and presents a format and strategy to minister to people as they are now.
This is what we will be about. We will be all about responding to this place around us with a real purpose and a real passion for real people.
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