Ripe for Harvest

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C. Stuff that normally happens in an effective church planting ministry:

1. You are forced to operate understaffed and under-planned.

2. Undelegated work falls in your lap.

3. Trusted team members quit or fight.

4. Your plans go completely south.

5. You lack the proper equipment.

6. The ragged equipment you have gives up the ghost.

7. You run out of money, time, and energy.

8. You or other trusted workers get sick, at the absolutely wrong time.

9. You lose support, financially, spiritually, personally.

10. Your students, mentors, volunteers quit.

11. You become disillusioned and quit!

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. . . . Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

D. To adapt is to fight zealously to complete your mission: adaptation demands heavenly armor.

1. You are exposed : strap your armor on, Eph. 6.13.

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2. Your enemy is determined : don’t be ignorant of his schemes, 2 Cor. 2.11.