Your Church Can Grow

Six of us from the Greater New Jersey Annual Conference traveled southward to Richmond, Virginia, on Sunday, November 8th to participate in the New Church Planter Leadership Institute. This is a training event that attempts to answer the question, “Is new church planting for me?”

The training started this morning with worship led by the Rev. Matt Poole of the Baltimore-Washington Annual Conference. Matt preached on the 5 excuses of Moses (Exodus 3).
1. Why me? What makes you think I could ever go to Pharoah and the lead the children of Israel out of Egypt?
A. God answers: “I’ll be with you.”
2. What do I tell them? (I.e. I don’t know what to tell them).
A. Tell, “I am who I am.”
3. They won’t trust me. They won’t listen to me (4:1)
A. God asks him what he has in his hand (a shepherd’s staff), i.e. use the gifts you already have.
4. I don’t talk well. I’ve never been good with words. I stutter and stammer.
A. I’ll be there with you–in your mouth. I’ll be there to teach you what to say.
5. Please, send somebody else!
A. You’ve got brother Aaron who can help you.

What is our excuse?

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