You’re riding through your neighborhood. You see the boarded-up homes, the kids on bikes with nowhere to go, the corner boys posted up, the mama carrying groceries while holding two toddlers’ hands. And something in your heart breaks.“I have to do something… I think I’m supposed to plant a church right here.” That’s how it starts for many of us. A burden. A calling. A conviction to bring the gospel to our community. But somewhere between the block and the blueprint, you get pulled into a machine. The Church Planting Industrial Complex.

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