A Neverending Mission Trip
Planting a church is a lot like a mission trip in a typical church. But, the wild thing is that it never ends! A mission trip is usually hard, and it involves lots of work. Most of the time that work is at a level that you’d never reach when you are back home at your church. But, starting a new church means that the workload comes every Sunday! You get up early, empty trailers, set everything up, serve your guts out for 2 services, tear everything down, load the trailers, go home and let the adrenaline buzz wind down into a splitting headache, and then you crash. It’s jetlag at its worst but minus the jet.
I get paid to do this, but I’d like to think I would do it without the money. I think I would. There are people who volunteer at Arrowhead every Sunday for this madness who prove it’s not about the money. That blows me away. I love what God is doing in us.
