Darren Patrick is lead pastor at Journey Church in St. Louis and vice-president of the Acts 29 church planting network. He recently authored the book Church Planter and recently sat down with the crew at Desiring God for an interview.
I watched this for a few reasons, but one because I bought the book and wanted to get a little more background on the context of the HOW and WHY the book was written.
The promo video for the book is excellent and worth the 5 minutes it takes to watch.
Here are a few thoughts, quotes, etc. I walked away with from the interview:
- In Darrin's testimony, God used an assistant high school football coach to bring the message of the Gospel to him when he was a junior in high school, had just gotten kicked off the football team for drinking, kicked out of school for fighting and was sure he had just gotten his girlfriend pregnant.
The below quotes have a full context within the interivew to understand, but they are worth noting.
"You can always take the commands of God back to the character of God"
"I saved you, so now you can obey me" (not the other way around)
"You cannot make God smile bigger at you than He already is because of what Jesus has done"
"There is a difference between surface idols and source idols" You'll have to listen to the interview for him to unpack this.
Disaster is 'when the story and glory of a church becomes bigger than the story and glory of God'.
"A BAN is not a boy, not a man, prolongs adolescence and many do this because they don't have dads."
What is the posture God wants to use us in??? Weakness II COR. 12.
'When people look around at you and aren't impressed with you but with Jesus, that is a great thing.'
I appreciated this post. Watched both videos this afternoon- that is some good stuff. I am interested to get the book.- Amanda
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