When I felt God leading me to start a church, there was a lot of push-back on my end. Not because I didn’t want to, but because, I didn’t like church planters.

In my dealings with church planters, the majority of the ones that I came in contact with were arrogant and prideful. They would talk about how their church plant was going to be the special sauce. And then drop names of big-time successful pastors. After a while of hanging out with these guys, I got sick of it. One, because I didn’t know any big-name or even any medium-name pastors to drop, and two, the special sauce makes me nauseous.

Over the past couple of years I have watched some of these guys fail miserably and some of them grow exponentially. I can’t explain it.

I thought about why it bothered me, because it seemed silly to me to not like my own tribe. And this is what I came up with. It has nothing to do with them, it had everything to do with me. To break it down, I am jealous. I am jealous of the growth and also jealous of the journey. Either way they, had the guts to actually do what I had only been talking about doing.

A message to my church planting people: Give me some time, I’ll work through my issues, and end up loving you.  But it’s going to take a while. Thanks for understanding.

—D’Art