Reflections on 11/3 Class

We began class on Tuesday discussing the important role that grieving plays in the initial stages of a church plant, as those individuals on the planting team must come together and share their hurts, frustrations, and losses from past church contexts. I must admit that I never thought about the importance of including a therapeutic element in the planting process. Without first sharing those hurts and losses and working through them, it is next to impossible to create a new expression of what it means to be the Church. New churches that are rooted in past bitterness and pain are only bound to fail.