Have you heard this attitude in Christian leaders starting a church?
“I can do it better than the former generation”
-unspoken attitude of local church leader
or
“I can do it better than those doing it now”.
I think these are the worst possible motivations a church leader/ planter can take.
You can spot this a mile away peppered through sermons, if it’s a young pastor it’s about the former generation (likely daddy issues), if it a middle-aged pastor it’s about the other churches (competitive self-centered kingdom building).
If it’s a mature pastor that attitude has likely been beaten out by reality and by the Lord himself.
If you are an evangelical Christian leader who thinks like this, Please Don’t Start Another Church because 1) it’s not true, you cannot do it better, you can do it differently, and 2) even if you can do it better, please don’t, the body of Christ has enough of that. At least in this neck of the woods.
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