Organic Church Planting in my "Tribe"

I hate the way people from my denomination refer to themselves as a tribe. I don't know why, but it drives me nuts. Maybe its a holdover from my degree in anthropology and the realization that they use the term improperly. Maybe should be referring to ourselves as a moiety or possibly a coterie...anyways those would start to bug me too. I guess I just have a bad attitude.

Another thing that drives me nuts is that we have all the window dressing of being a powerhouse in the area of church planting and yet we struggle to have any real success on the ground. And I don't mean success as I define it, I mean spread the tent wide with your definition of success and still see if you can find many happy campers inside it. I think we all have small victories here and there but there is a considerable amount of frustration and even anger amongst our ranks of church planters. Its too bad because my pack (flock, herd, horde, throng...just trying out some new terms) is exactly where I want to be - on paper our theology, ecclessiology and missiology line up - and it has a strong history. We lose way too many young leaders because we don't know how to encourage and enfold risk-takers. A glorious past is often the enemy of a triumphant future.

Anyways, my days of going on rants or tirades to ears that don't hear are a thing of the past. Instead I once again dipped into the acerbic well of my ink!!

BTW on a technical side I have became fascinated with using fountain pens and brushes in my sketching - maybe I will post some less acrimonious drawings in the next little bit.