Church Planting and Family Planting
By Ben Connelly A planter’s wife told me a few months before we started our church, “You’re not a real church planter unless you have a kid within the first year.” She was joking, but my wife Jess and I apparently took her seriously. Four months into planting, we found ourselves preparing for both our first church and our first child. We’re thrilled, but in the middle of these busiest, most-stressful, “more-late-nights-than-college” months, the life change makes us wonder how we’ll balance it all. Again. Because it feels like we’ve just started figuring out how to balance life, marriage, ministry, jobs, etc. with just two of us! Here are three things I’ve learned about marriage: Be Intentional I was amazed how quickly after our ...
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