Planting a church is kind of like fighting your way through a jungle, attempting to forge a path. You are so focused on the vines and creepers right in front of you, remaining to be cut, that you can’t focus on how far you have already gone. What is behind you doesn’t matter. For all practical purposes, you start over with every swing.

We have been working on this stretch of jungle for three and a half years now and though we have seen God do incredible things, we are still swinging like we just began. I never want that to stop. I hope and pray that no matter how long God tarries that we will still think and work with the fresh intensity and raw zeal of a start-up work. We are still planting this church and always will be.

The moment you begin to sit around talking about how far you have come and maintaining the status quo, not only do you stop moving forward but the jungle actually begins to close in on you. You have to fight to maintain the hunger and drive that comes from just starting out. There is a slowness and a deadness that comes from thinking like an institution. No matter how long you have been at it, grab your machete and start hacking like you just started!

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