Keep on planting!

How difficult it turns out to be to plant a new church, when, you don't want to be entertaining and comfortable, but rather, wholly appreciative of the broad complexity of life experience, or in other words, honest and real. Then you can also be caught in the conundrum of wanting to be counter-culturally prophetic at the same time as humbly embracing and engaging with all. You want to create something that tangibly makes a difference, but not in a way that extracts people from the context of important family and neighbourly relationships. So what can keep the sowers planting while ploughing through all these competing mindsets ... the earth is the Lord's and everything that dwells within it (Psalm 24:1)! Oh to see people reconnect with the God who is reaching out to them in so many ways. Oh to live in a community that daily sees the light of Jesus dawning.