I had lunch today with Abdu Murray. Abdu is a converted Muslim and one of three founders of Aletheia, a ministry startup designed to share Jesus with Jews, Muslims, cult members and skeptics. One of the other founders is a converted Jew. The third is a converted atheist.
Great conversation. Mike Kern set the lunch up (that's Mike Kern jr for those of you at COTK). Abdu is currently a lawyer (which by the way is a great profession for an apologist). The guy can flat out debate and reason. Mike is a buisnessman. We spent alot of time dreaming about creative ways to fund ministry startups.
Planting The Oaks has been a great thing for our church, but the experience has also caused me to think a little bigger about how we will resource future church plants. To be a church of 200 and plant a daughter church required us to leverage virtually every ministry that we have. As a result we're experiencing alot of transition right now. I dream of the day we will find ourselves planting not only one church, but several at the same time. To do that we'll need some creative resource strategies.
I actually used a napkin to draw some thoughts out for Mike and Abdu that have been floating around in my head the last few weeks. Who knows. Maybe in ten years that napkin will be hanging on the wall in the entrance to a church planting resource center for Metro Detroit! I only need $200,000.00 to make the napkin work.
It could turn out to be an expensive napkin:)
On a side note, I must be hitting that age where I'm thinking more about health. I chose the baby carrots with my sandwich over the potato chips.
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