Church planting

Have you ever wandered what it would be like to see a church start from scratch? Well, here is your chance. Below is straight out of my journal.

April 26,2009
Just came home from the conference. There are very few times in my life I have had a God experience. You know the one where after that moment your whole life has changed, well it happened to me. I have told God I was done with any ministry and I would only do what he asked of me. No more trying to make it happen. People have asked me for the last couple of years if I was interested in full-time ministry or being a pastor. I have had the same answer from day one. If God speaks to me in a burning bush I would listen. Well, the last day of the conference there was a speaker by the name of Francis Chan, pastor of cornerstone church in CA. he asked people who were interested in planting a church to come forward and he would pray with them. He said that God wanted to reveal his fire, he would have his fire fall on us. I knew I had to go forward I looked at Kerrey and said let’s go. We walked to the front and there a lady met us and as she started to pray I felt something different. She prayed, reveal your fire to them. And no sooner had she finished someone else came up and prayed father let your fire fall on this couple. I knew at that point God wanted to speak. With my head down I cried out “here am I” – in that moment it was if I was Moses standing in front of the blazing bush – here I am, all of me broken laid before you do with me as you wish. That is when I heard his voice. Not as some thunderous voice but it rocked me in my inmost core I knew at that moment I was in the presence of God. At that moment I knew he wanted me to plant a church.
It has been three days since that event and I don’t know how to say it any better than something deep inside of me has been awakened. I know what I need to do.

The seed planted, the vision conceived and the journey began.