\u201cAnd where is he?\u201d . . . \u201cWhy did you leave him? Invite him to have something to eat.\u201d
\n \u2014 Exodus 2:20<\/p>\n
Church planting can bring lots of excitement and challenges.\u00a0Have you ever met a church planter? They give up many of the comforts and expectations of a church home because God is calling them to reach out. They are moving in a direction that hasn\u2019t been tested before. With that comes great excitement and a little fear. They are motivated to start a new church so that others can hear the good news and come to know Jesus. They invite others to join them, and that can mean serving on a steering committee. They meet neighbors and other Christians and share meals and ideas as they make conversation and discuss strategies and plans, and the list of people touched by God\u2019s love continues to grow.\u00a0Every church planter looks for the person or group in a community who can introduce them to others whom they might need to reach. These can be people who know how to connect with others and share stories, people with helpful skills, people who can help with financing or vision or provide support in other ways. They are all community champions and people of peace.\u00a0Moses became a person like that when he helped Reuel\u2019s daughters. They invited him in, and he became part of their family. He became a keeper of flocks. In that space he learned from God, who was preparing him for important work to do.\u00a0In what ways might God be calling and preparing you to join him on mission?\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lord, help us to hear you and respond to your plan and purpose for our lives. Guide us to move in the direction you are sending us in. Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cAnd where is he?\u201d . . . \u201cWhy did you leave him? Invite him to have something to eat.\u201d \u2014 Exodus 2:20 Church planting can bring lots of excitement and challenges.\u00a0Have you ever met a church planter? They give up many of the comforts and expectations of a church home because God is calling them<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1674],"class_list":["post-19354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-devotionals","tag-invite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}