Do you hear the old George Michael's song... "Ya gotta have faith.. faith.. faith..."
Some of you are to young to remember that... so never mind...
When God called me to plant Revolution Church, I was scared out of my mind! Really...
I know what you are thinking right now:
"You gotta have faith Chris, God is always faithful."
For the record, I agree. For all of you that have been in my shoes and are currently traveling down a similar path of planting a church... You can feel me when I say this...
I am sure you have probably heard this before...
The analogy goes... You have a chair, and you tell people it will hold you if you stand on it. But until YOU actually stand on it, they are not going to believe you because you are not putting feet to your faith.
As a church planter, sometimes our chair that we are standing in is much like the chair in the picture to the right. God himself has called us to stand in the chair telling us all the time to trust Him. We look at it and think... "God, there are so many missing pieces, are you sure it will hold? ...God, part of the foundation is missing, and the backing is not too strong either".
God assures us that His Vision will not fall nor fail. We, like Peter, sometimes get distracted by the natural. Peter was WALKING ON WATER!!! (Matt. 14:29) He was totally focused on Jesus! It never dawned on him that he was doing something supernatural. It wasn't until he began to realize that what he was doing was not humanly possible that he started to sink.
We may not have all the answers, pieces may be missing, but we have to trust in the Carpenter that constructed the vision. We have to have the faith to step on the chair and focus on The One that planted that Vision for Florence, SC. In His way, and in His time, the pieces will come together. He is calling us to step out on FAITH!