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ITS
PERSONAL
SURVIVING AND THRIVING
ON THE JOURNEY OF
CHURCH PLANTING
BRIAN &
AMY BLOYE
FOREWORD BY ANDY STANLEY
T O OUR SONS , T AYLOR AND Z ACHARY , thank you for your passion, faithfulness, and support while we wrote this book. Thank you for loving God, the church, and lost and hurting people through all of your experiences as pastors kids. You are warriors, and because of Jesus, youve got what it takes. We cannot wait to see the amazing things God is going to continue to do in your lives!
T O OUR PARENTS , J OHN AND J UDY B LOYE AND M AX AND N ANCY M ILLS. You are our heroes. You have influenced our lives in such a huge way through your faithfulness and perseverance in marriage and ministry that we are blessed and compelled to pour out what has been given to us through your examples. Heaven seems closer and relationships are sweeter because of the huge impact you continue to have on our lives!
So you want to plant a church? Great! Just know this: its not for the timid.
I have incredible respect for church planters. Theyre lovers of adventure, of getting to the front lines where the bullets are flying and where battles will be won or lost. Planting a successful church is one of the most demanding undertakings. It can also be one of the most satisfying. My friends Brian and Amy Bloye are about to give you a crash course in all that. These are dispatches from the front lines.
People say North Point was a church plant, and in some ways thats true. But we had a bank of a thousand people to start with. The Bloyes made it happen the hard way maybe the way youre trying to make it happen. They loaded up a U-Haul, drove a few hundred miles away from everything familiar, and built from the ground up.
Ive known Brian Bloye for more than ten years, and Ive seen how it worked out at West Ridge Church. I found him to be both leader and learner, someone strong enough to point the way, but wise enough to make course corrections. As he and I talked, I felt the intensity of his commitment not just to his church, but also to his family and his spiritual health. I saw that he grasped one of the church-planting essentials: most communities dont need another church, they need a different kind of church. Brian knew the truth in that. He insisted on it, sometimes at a high cost. One of the many lessons you will pull from this book is that church planting demands all that you are and some of what youre not yet.
There are other books on this subject, but none that are more practical, honest, or raw than this one. There might be a few pages where you gulp and mutter, Do I really want to do this? Good its a fair question. Just keep reading. Keep thinking. Keep praying. Because there will also be pages that inspire you, pages that make you say, I really want to do this. Then when you move on to the front lines, you will be just a little better armed, a little more battle wise.
A NDY S TANLEY
Do you remember Seinfelds Soup Nazi episode? As the character Kramer says, He suffers for his soup. We get the point. Anything that is of great value will cost us something. Planting a church is just one example. (We can now add another: writing a book.) When Exponential Network and Leadership Network approached us about this project, we humbly accepted. We wanted to discuss issues that we see being lived out by so many church planters we encounter. Time after time, weve observed that there are big issues but issues no one wants to bring up.
So yes, we felt called to write this book. But the process hasnt been easy. Weve started each new chapter only to find that its themes were playing out in our everyday life. Its been true for us and even for our boys. These subjects have hit a little too close to home at times, but thats okay. We understand that nothing eternally significant happens without a certain amount of sacrifice.
As you read these pages, you may find that you disagree with a point or two. Church planting has its controversies and gray areas. We can only share what weve come to believe through our own journey, in the hope that others may find a nugget here and there to make their own experiences healthier and more effective. However, well promise you this: well be unflinchingly honest about the path weve traveled.
Now we invite you to share in the journey as we walk it again, with its high points and also its dark valleys. Church planting is difficult, unpredictable, and exhausting. But through it all, weve never ceased to believe that Jesus Christ and his church remain the one hope for this struggling world. Thats why the sacrifice is worthwhile, and its also why were excited about this new, massive movement of church planting. God is doing an amazing thing.
Weve seen it from the front lines and were honored to have this opportunity to share it with you.
Im tagging along with Amy at the grocery store. Its my day off. Were walking through the produce section and chatting about what makes a great salad. The produce section is my favorite part of the store; Im a fruit-oholic.
I push the cart around the first aisle, and now were in the canned foods section soup, beans, pineapple chunks. Amy loves it when I shop with her, because I always throw extra things in the cart! Im a little impatient as I lean on the handle. Were in a hurry to get to the theater. We rarely miss our Friday afternoon movie date. The PA system plays a song I like. I hum along and do some people watching and see a face I know in the coffee aisle. Well call him Bill.
Bill has one of those handheld baskets on his arm. I see that What are you doing here? look on his face. For some reason, people are usually surprised to encounter their pastor at the grocery store. I clap a hand on Bills shoulder. How you been, man?
He hesitates for just a moment. Good. Im good. You?
Whats up with Bill? He seems a little uncomfortable. My mind sorts through the Bill files and tells me I havent seen his family at church for a while. So maybe thats it: absentee guilt. I need to subtly let him know that Im not here to play the attendance card, so Im extra friendly. I hear your boys going out for football. You must be excited.
Oh Yeah, thats right. He is, says Bill. He looks down at the Colombian Blend in his hand for a moment, then says, Brian, Ive been meaning to tell you; weve been going to another church. He looks as if hes afraid Im going to grab him by the throat and start choking him.
Okay, well, thats great, I say, with a smile to let him know that its all good. Which church? He tells me. Lots of good things going on there, I say. Their pastor is a friend of mine.
Yeah, says Bill, relaxing a bit, a burden sliding from his shoulders. Still, it feels as if the two of us are in a funeral home, standing before the casket. I just hang loose for a minute, because if I walk away now, it will seem abrupt as if I have no interest in someone who is no longer part of my church. Bill says, Its just, you know, its just more um, right for my family where we are now.
Tell me a little more about that, I say. Im interested.
Well, Bill says slowly, I dont know, I guess we feel were getting
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