Only One Good Reason

I know there are a lot of church planters and potential church planters that read this blog, and wanted to put my 2 cents into the question:  why start a church?

You should NOT start a church for any of the following reasons:

• you think it would be fun
• the little old ladies at your last church said you were a better speaker than the real preacher
• you are a youth pastor and thats as hard as being a lead pastor
• your friends have told you that you’d be a good pastor
• you don’t like the worship style of your last church
• a Seminary professor said you should be a pastor
• you like to teach, preach, speak, or whatever you call it
• church planting is the latest hot ministry fad

There is ONLY one good reason to plant a church.  That’s it.  One.  Uno. You should only start a church if God has specifically, directly, blatently, clearly told you to do it.