When I was in college I felt God clearly call me into church planting.  There was no second guessing, no “Did I miss God?”  I actually never saw myself as an entrepreneur type before being called.  This was before it was cool to plant churches.  So with single purpose and obedience I mapped out my pursuit of planting.

After three churches and eight years of support planting (bi-vocational staff pastor) we feel God calling us to lead plant a church.  Wisely many organizations have assessments, test, interviews, etc to determine if you got the stuff.  Do you have the church planter in you?  All these test and questions make me wonder if men in the Bible would have made the cut?

Moses (Ex.3) wasn’t a church planter – but he was a leader.  Often I feel like Moses.  I often pray God here I am please use me (3.4).  I hear the calling to go (3.10).  But when God gives a clear “go start this church” I question myself (3.11), ask for signs (3.12), want to know what to say (3.13), think of others objections and responses (4.1), make excuses for my gifts (4.10), and wonder if someone else should be doing this (4.13).  It’s very comical.  But Moses had something inside him.

The list is long, the characters different, but the stories the same.  Noah, Abraham, Jacob, Gideon, Samuel, David, Elisha, Daniel, Peter, Paul – all questioned themselves when God called on them.  However, each in spite of everything obeyed and went. Why – because there was something inside them. Something others couldn’t see but God did. 

What do you think God saw and others didn’t?