What Have You Started from Scratch?
By Paul Dean Paul Dean is an Acts 29 church planter who started Alathia Community in Issaquah, Washington, four years ago. You’ve got to admire the entrepreneurial aptitude of the extreme sport crowd. Crash or land, they are always trying something new. Entrepreneurial Aptitude (E.A.) is a gifting from the Holy Spirit that makes you (to some degree) comfortable with the extreme sport-like risk that is church planting. Starting something from jack-squat takes tireless prayer, effort, and relationship-grinding teamwork, and may just crash even after all that. A lead church planter has to be OK with apparent failure. E.A. is hard to describe, because it looks different with different people. Acts 29 church planters answer a series of questions that hit at the issue before and ...
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