Thinking
I’m thinking about writing a book. I know everyone’s done it, said it, promoted it, blah, blah, blah. I’m not very marketing savvy so I don’t know what I’ll call it. But it won’t be a book for church planters, except those who have planted only one church. It will be a book to try to inspire Pastors of churches of all sizes and denominations, worship styles, discipleship styles, evangelism styles, whatever style to start planting churches.
Here’s the outline:
Passion for People – if you love people and want to see them come to Christ you will plant churches. Otherwise you just want to build your kingdom.
Passion for Place – I hear from church planters all the time about how they just knew that they knew this was the place. You gotta love it where God plants you or you’ll be moving on soon.
Passion for Planting – Church Planting grows out of a Pastor’s heart and vision. It will not come from laypeople, it will not come from other staff members. It will come when a Pastor is so fired up for a people and a place that God won’t let him rest until he does all he can to reach the area where God has planted him.
I see these things at WRC. I want to share the story and the plan. Obviously most of it will be Brian’s story. So I’ll write the strategy and ask him to tell the story. Do you think it needs to be written? Do you think any pastor will read it? Am I wasting my time.
I don’t expect to have a best seller, probably end up buying most of it ourselves and giving it away. I heard recently that is how most books get on the NY Times best seller list. Special Interest groups buy up all the copies and give them away. Now the difficulty is finding the time.
