Church Planting

Earlier I mentioned that a focus for this blog would be the process of planting a church in our neck of the woods.  I thought I’d try to unpack what I mean by that and where we are in said process.

I’ve been journaling (an ever growing Word doc) for a bit, so some of this will come from there.  The short answer to where we are in the process is – the beginning!  We’ve been reflecting, asking questions, praying, dreaming, and conversing with a few folks, etc….  I would say we’re in a trajectory (“Victor, give me a vector”), but we’re intentionally taking it slow.  I might even go so far as to call it contemplative church planting.

Here are some of the questions that roll around in my head regarding church planting:

What would it look like to form a community of people who follow Jesus?  What would it look like to follow Jesus together – not as individuals, but as a community, a people?  How might a community of people follow Jesus together in the Cincinnati, OH neighborhood of Pleasant Ridge?  What might God be calling us to?  What is the prevailing social, physical, emotional, or spiritual need in Pleasant Ridge?  Why start another church in the first place?  How could this new community of faith serve the neighborhood?  What would be the distinctive characteristics of the community’s social and ecclesial life together?

That’ll do for now… I’ll share some of my answers to those questions in further posts.