Perhaps because of the leadership lessons he has learned, Mason warns against seeing a church community solely as a mission field, without the interaction that comes from doing life together. He encourages church planters to consider their churches as “a place that you love and engage, where you can seek the peace of the city and its welfare, because in it you find your welfare. You’re not just helping those people; God is using the ministry to sanctify you, as well as to reach people in the neighborhood.