12 Potential Confirmation Questions from Mark Driscoll<\/p>\n
The following is from Acts 29 Co-Founder Mark Driscoll’s teaching “The Calling of a Church Planter.” After outlining the necessity of a calling on the life of a church planter, he presented twelve questions to ask in confirming the call. <\/p>\n
Calling Confirmation Questions <\/p>\n
1. Is the Holy Spirit out ahead of you planting the church? You don\u2019t plant a church for God, you plant a church with God. If money, people, and a place start showing up as you\u2019re preparing to plant, that is potential evidence that the Holy Spirit is out ahead of you. (Acts 1)<\/p>\n
2. Is your church planting call obvious to other godly leaders?<\/p>\n
3. Has God confirmed your church plant by showing up in miraculous (big, supernatural, no-other-way-to-explain-it) ways? In Acts 3 and 4, Peter heals a man, preaches, and then thousands of people get saved.<\/p>\n
4. Are you reaching lost people? The goal of church plants is the salvation of lost people. If you\u2019re not doing this, don\u2019t plant a church. If you want to be a shepherd, there are plenty of existing flocks in need. (Acts 8:5-9)<\/p>\n
5. Has Jesus showed up and told you to plant? (Acts 9)<\/p>\n
6. Has God told you to plant through a vision? In Acts 10 and 11, Cornelius and Peter both have a vision: Peter is called and Cornelius welcomes him.<\/p>\n
7. Has God providentially relocated you to plant? In Acts 11:19-21, believers scatter due to prosecution and plant a church where they resettle.<\/p>\n
8. Is God calling you to plant because you\u2019re not totally necessary at your current church? If you\u2019re in a church with good leaders that will be fine without you on their team, God may be calling you to relocate to a place where you can use your gifts and resources to their full capacity. (Acts 13)<\/p>\n
9. Is God calling you to plant because you\u2019re currently wasting your time in a toxic place? (Acts 14)<\/p>\n
10. Are you called to be a catalytic church planter or to plant a church-planting center? In Acts 14, Paul goes from one city to the next planting churches and then sends in other men to establish elders whereas James (Jesus\u2019 brother) plants a church in Jerusalem and stays there, sending other men out.<\/p>\n
11. Has God called you to plant by giving you a deep burden for a city or people? (Acts 17:16)<\/p>\n
12. Has God called you to plant by giving you a core group? (Acts 18:7-8)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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