Who is Planting the Church? “should I be in a church plant”
• 80% of all churches have flat-lined or are coming upon death
• 3,500 churches die every year (that’s a lot of churches to plant!)
• 33% of Americans have never gone to a church service
• Statistically, the fastest way to reach the lost in America is to plant a new church

I like Jesus, but I don’t like Christians
• I like your Christ, but I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike Your Christ” – Gandhi
• If we weren’t Christians, we probably wouldn’t be attracted to it either
• Sense of distrust and caution towards Christians
• What is this subculture we have created? “Christapalooza: 20,000 Christians convene…God doesn’t show
• Preaching and preaching should not focus on “sin Management”…..it should focus on kingdom living and how to become disciples of Christ now


The Call
As Jesus walked beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a new into the lake, for they were fishermen. "Come, follow me," Jesus said, "and I will make you fishers of men." At once they left their nets and followed him. Mark 1:16-18

The very essence of your mission should be rooted in theological truth. Namely, the proclamation of the Gospel. You need to have confidence in where you are going. There are not many among us who would have thought Jesus handing off the kingdom work to the twelve was a good idea. But it is God who worked in and through them. You must believe He will work in and through the people God gives us.

Mission:
Our mission has been given to us by Jesus Christ through the Great Commandment and the Great Commission.

The Great Commandment
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength...You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

The Great Commission
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.