Best of Bob

Bob Hyatt, over at Bob.blog; who, to be honest i'm not sure how i started reading, has a great post on church planting. One comment really struck a chord with me:

If you do this might you fail? I guess it depends on how you define
failure. They say 80% of church plants fail. I don’t know about that… all I can say is that I think that many church plants that seem to be failures by the standard of “Did they make it?” were probably great adventures for many involved, probably introduced people to Christ and probably made a practical difference in the lives of some people who really needed those small, “failing” churches. I think that the biggest failures in the church planting world aren’t the ones who function as a community for 1, 2 or 5 years and then disband to go do something else. I think the biggest failures in the church planting world are the churches that never even get started, for whatever eason- whether because of fear, because of lack of encouragement or simply because no one asked “Well, why shouldn’t we?”

I can really echo that sentiment, having been apart of a plant that ''failed''; a plant that introduced me to my beautiful bride, a church that brought many back to God. As much as I may see human reasons why we failed, or why others may not succeed, God's timing/plan is not our own, and we just need to trust him---