The Spiritual Practice of Starting Something with Bryan Halferty

Being an active follower of Christ will always lead us to find things that are incongruent with God's Kingdom and we'll want to do something about it. To do justice, we have to address injustice and that might require us to start something (and our community is full of people that start things). Starting something is hard though so we've invited author and pastor Bryan Halferty to walk us through the spirit and the tenacity it takes to undertake a new Kingdom venture. Bryan also shares about his upcoming book "Terrible Beauty" which is a memoir of his own journey towards starting a church in the most unchurched metropolitan area of the country.

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Conversation Notes

• Engaging other cultures as a means of learning more about God.
• Discerning God's direction to start something new and how that led to a church plant.
• Balancing the realities of injustice with the maintaining spiritual and relational health.
• The role of risk when starting a ministry. Embracing the risk, the vulnerability and the potential of failure.
• The reality of facing rejection and apathy when you've created and brought something into the world
• Christ's example of compassion and suffering that guides towards ministry
• The messianic ache and the cry of Maranatha as we long to be with Christ and for His Kingdom to come in full

 

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