Building a plane in the air...

Mark Batterson often says church is like "building an airplane in the air". (link for email subscribers) Sometimes it feels like that. Church is made up of people, it never "stops", it never is "finished". Situations are always changing...the "plan" seems like it is always getting "tweaked".

The good news is we are not following a blueprint created by a human architect or engineer. There is a big element of church planting that is simply "showing up and actually getting to work". On the other hand, as our launch team is forming and I am getting a chance to talk to people who have literally been "prepared" for years to be a part of the team without even knowing why...I can't help but feel like we are part of something that was planned long before I "showed up". That realization is both humbling and extremely reassuring...

10For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:10 NIV