I want to tell you that sometimes there are calm moments in church planting. But they are not often. More often you are like an egg being whisked in a bowl. The world spins around and around, and when it settles (often around holidays) you poke your head out and try to see where you are. Occasionally, you realize that you have forgotten fundamental things. You know the things that are most basic, and you forget or get distracted and you look back and for two years you've been leading a church without doing those simple basic things.
Then you feel the embarrassment. You feel stupid for having overlooked something so pedestrian. I mean, after all, you are a professional aren't you. You're the one who has been through over 200 credited hours of training to do this job. You see your mistake, and what do you do?
Get over it, and get to it.
That's what tomorrow's small group retreat is about. It is about an investment in the people of the church to train them in how to minister to others. To show them what the body of Christ is supposed to function like. It is written in our founding documents that training small group leaders would be a priority for us, and now two years later we're finally doing it.
In preparation for the retreat I remembered that I had already written the training three years ago. I knew it was a basic move on the front side, but here we are just getting to it.
Get over it, and get to it.
We'll never be the same again as a church after this weekend, because I'm getting over it, and I'm getting to it.
--Ben
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wheres the rest of the site ?
Dear Anon. I'm not sure. It looks fine to me. Perhaps try clicking on the title at the top of the page called www.benjaminrainey.com. It is a link to the site. You may have inadvertently clicked a view to only see the individual post. And from time to time blogger has problems, so I'm not sure where the problem is. But thanks for checking in.
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