Spiritual Checklist
Posted by admin at 11:19 am
I just recently attended Innovate Church conference at Thomas Road Baptist Church and it was incredible. If you are a church planter, pastor, youth pastor or leader you need to go next year. But don’t worry you can watch all the main sessions on the Innovate website. During one of the breakout sessions about church planting Brian Bloye, lead pastor, West Ridge Church along with Matt Fry, lead pastor, C3 spoke about their experience with church planting and multi-site churches. Both men contribute some great advice and encouragement but one thing that stuck out to me was Brian Bloye’s spiritual checklist. Brian used this list in the context of what church planters need to inspect everyday but this list should be examined by anyone who follows Christ. The following is Brian Bloye’s list with my comments on each area:
- Desperation for God-our relationship with God is imperative. If you want to see God move in a huge way you have to first fall in love with the Creator each and every day.
- Holiness-“Holiness is next to Godliness” or maybe that is cleanliness? Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am the Lord your God. Leviticus 20: 7
- Home-when we dedicate our lives to the ministry there can be a tendency to over commit ourselves to the work and neglect our family. Our family is the most important advisory in the ministry that we have. If our family is beat down, and they will take a beating, then we have forgot our second responsibility (God, Family, Ministry).
- Honesty-I am amazed of the dishonesty that I have experienced in the ministry. I am not going to say that I have never been guilty of “stretching the truth” but there has to be a point when when let our Yes be Yes and our No be No. (Mathew 5:37)
- Happiness (personal plan for disappointment)-I have a real easy solution for this, Romans 5:3-5
- Healthiness (emotional/physical)-this one really convicts me. It is so easy to go go go and never rest rest rest. This is so important because I can guarantee that if we are physical tired we will be emotional and SPIRITUALLY tires and ineffective.
- Humility-Wow! This is really hard especially for the church planting type. We are so driven it is easy to take the credit for something good that happens in our ministries but we can’t forget that success does not exist apart for God.
