Church Consulting

I got an interesting call from a fellow graduate of Valley Forge Christian College (www.vfcc.edu) who is pursuing the call of God on her life to plant a church.

Her church consists of herself and her daughter. That's it.

She is confused and upset and everything else one might feel in her shoes. Her parents are against her, the two women who did attend have left her, and now she has no one accept herself and her daughter, but she is faithful to her church. Every Sunday, she worships, prays and preaches.

You want to talk about commitment and diligence. Try that on for size!

What do you say to someone like that?

I felt like I was doing a little church consulting. I tried everything I knew and I don't think it was good enough. I said, why don't you restructure or partner with another church to help you and on I went, but I think the most important thing I did was pick up the phone when she called.

She said the last person she called hung up on her because she was too busy, but I picked it up and she was so excited about that, probably even more excited then what the things I said!

What do you say, when you don't know what to say? How about, NOTHING.

I learned to Listen, Listen and Listen some more!