John O’Keefe lays out some of the frustrations of church planting especially in regards to acquiring funds from organizations that are supposed to help. He exposes a deep rooted problem in the church…generosity.
“it is so hard to realize that there are more people out their striving to make a buck on church planting. they claim to help fund church plants and in reality simply see church plants as a funding source for their business – when did honesty and grace fall out of ‘para-ministries?’
as we search for funding at 247connection [where i am the lead pastor] we keep hitting walls of ‘sure, we can help but first you need to come to ‘our boot camp’ [at a very hefty cost] and buy our stuff [at an additional hefty cost], and we will think about giving you a stippen to get you buy as you plant the church – and then you will need to pay it all back, and tithe to us for the next five years.’ [and if anyone can point to the bibical model for this, that would be very cool] which is just crazy.”
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