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Planting a Church without Losing Your Soul: Nine Questions for the Spiritually Formed Pastor is unavailable, but you can change that!

What does it take to be a church planter or other ministry entrepreneur? Most leaders start out with passion, a sense of calling, and a focus on building ministry skills. Such things might get some results, but they are not enough to sustain a healthy ministry—or a healthy life. Beyond the vocational capacities every church planter needs, there’s a range of capabilities more difficult to measure...

those first harried months of a church’s beginning, where we are going to be putting in a ridiculous number of hours in positively erratic ways. But we must come to those seasons cognizant of the fact that such seasons need to be the exception rather than the rule. Church planting is a marathon, not a sprint. If we want to still be in ministry ten, twenty, fifty years from now, we need to learn to run at a pace that is sustainable. .
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