Planning A Future

As some of you may know I’m in the pre-step process of planting a church in Philippines and it is exciting times. I’ve been reading every book under the sun about church planting and so many thoughts and ideas are floating in my head. Thoughts of vision statements, values, purpose, goals, plans, etc. My wife and I have continually been talking about the needs in the Philippines. We’ve been discussing things were we believe God is already working in that area and ways of how we can partner with Him. Just looking into the future and anticipating what God can accomplish.

So one day I was driving home with these various thoughts in my head, mainly trying to come up with a vision/purpose statement, and then it hit me. I should rephrase that… God hit me! Out of no where a thought popped into my head, “What is your vision for your marriage?”. Was it just a random thought…maybe? Could it be a prompting of the Holy spirit…probably!

So for the past few days now I have been looking at my marriage, specifically my wife. I was convicted that I seem to be focused on planning a future for a church more than planning a future with my wife. Don’t get me wrong, I’m totally not ignoring my wife or putting ministry before her, far from it. But when it comes to having a vision/purpose statement, goals, values, etc… I just don’t have one yet.

I find it interesting how Christ compares himself as a groom and the church as a bride yet so many resources for churches seem to compare church to a fortune 500 company (another blog for another time). So I’m not sure I can take those resources and instead of applying it to church I apply it to my wife. It just seems too corporate. Right now all I have is to love my wife as much as Christ loves me, I even think thats in the bible

So for the next couple of weeks I’m going to take the focus off planning for a church plant and place my focus on planning a future with my wife. If you have any resources you want to recommend please feel free to post them. I wonder if there is a book “Purpose Driven Husband”?

Nolan

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