Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Church Plants

I was asked, “Why in the world would we consider sending some of our people out to help start a church plant?” The answer is pretty simple really: "they're not our people" and "it's how we got started.” We can get pretty possessive and we try to monitor all the health metrics on attendance, giving, baptism and exchanges but at the end of the day, we want God's Kingdom to advance. Mission Church is a church plant in the Helotes area and Ryan Frazier is a friend who is going to be leading this prevailing church plant at O'Connor High School. Grace Point is on the front edge of church planting and we trust that by giving or sending more people will come to know Christ. We don't care who gets the credit and we trust that Grace Point won't wither away if many are sent to help start a new work. That's the secret: if you give it away, it comes back. It’s an upside-down kingdom.

2 comments:

archie said...

"It’s an upside-down kingdom". Such a simple statement and yet so difficult to incorporate in real life. We keep "leaning on our own understanding". Sigh.....

Anonymous said...

Jesus said "...I will build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it." How cool is it that Grace Point will join with Jesus in continuing to build HIS church in and around San Antonio?