It’s not been an easy year for pastors. It may be that God is using COVID to transition you to another ministry. It could also be that God is using COVID to tether you to the ministry you’re already in, but with much more depth of heart, renewal of mind, and restoration of soul.

How are you to plant a church instead of just planting a service? And, the reason that I want to answer this is that I think a lot of pastors go into church planting, but really their heart is that they just want to put together a really good worship service.

Here are a few encouragements for those of us who never feel like we’re preaching the sermon we could or should be preaching.

One of the sacred cows elder pluralities are reluctant to touch is the sacred area of lead-pastor preaching. Let’s touch it.