I have been drawn to church planting for number of years, and especially within the last 18 months or so. Laura and I have gone into our marriage with church planting as a major goal. Church planting is attractive to me because I would be able to build it without the “baggage” or memory of the stereotypical protest, “But we’ve never done it that way before.”

On that note, in a recent post, Dr. Mohler has said:

Some young pastors see church planting as a way of avoiding the challenge of dealing with the people and pathologies of older congregations. This is an abdication of responsibility.

I honestly have not considered the issue that way before. I have looked at the benefits of church planting, with failure as the only drawback. However, I think I must be careful to look at my motives (not to mention my calling) in seeking the Lord’s will for ministry.

UPDATE:

Timmy Brister has written an interesting post related to this topic, and specifically the quote above.