Church Planting Personal Review Aug 18, 2022 Are You a Church Planter in the Making? Most potential church planters struggle with the question, “Could I really be effective in planting a new church?” Actually, this is a question that should receive strong consideration. You may have spiritual gifts that you are not even fully aware of, gifts that are especially suited to effectively starting a new church. Do you have what it takes to be a successful church planter? Take this personal review and find out! Simply select your answers to all the questions and you will discover at the end. To complete your review, enter your name and email address to receive a copy of the results. 1. This past year I have pursued more learning by: reading books, participating in seminars or classes, either online or otherwise and meeting with a mentor. reading books or listening to tapes and meeting with a mentor. participating in a seminar or class either online or face to face. reading books. 2. When someone attempts to keep me from implementing an idea, I attempt to persuade them to join me in accomplishing it. keep focused and just ignore him or her. refrain from implementing the idea until others agree with me. often get angry and give up on my idea. 3. I am good at sharing my ideas with others and encouraging them to join me in them. Most of the time Some of the time Rarely I am most effective when I am assisting someone else with his or her ideas 4. I generally complete most of the things I start complete all of the things I start complete a few things I start am really not a good starter, but do better working under someone else 5. I work best when I am able to work from ideas that were laid upon my heart by the Lord can come up with a good idea and receive help in planning its development am able to follow the ideas that God gave to another person can be assigned a task that is part of someone else’s idea and focus on that 6. I usually complete tasks without having to be reminded just before the deadline with a gentle reminder from an associate or someone supervising me after the deadline 7. When I am overwhelmed with tasks to accomplish, I delegate the jobs to others drop some of the less important jobs will ask people to assist me only when the job would fail to be completed otherwise get frustrated and do the minimum 8. Why are you interested in church planting? 9. If I were allowed to start a new church, I would prefer to invest most of my time in reaching unchurched people to spend 80% of my time with the church and about 20% of my time with the unchurched to bring someone on my team who could communicate well with the unchurched so that I could devote my time to discipling Christians to focus upon the needs of the people in the church 10. I am currently pursuing multiple relationships with unchurched people for the purpose of loving them and leading them to the Lord a relationship with an unchurched person in order to love him/her and lead him/her to the Lord plans to start relationships with unchurched people for the purpose of loving them and leading them to the Lord no relationship with an unchurched person for the purpose of loving them and leading them to Christ 11. I function best when I can hang out with people who do not yet know Jesus when I am relating to new Christians when I can spend much of my time building relationships with Christians when I am relating to mature Christians 12. My spouse (if not applicable, select N/A) takes an active part in the ministry of the church whether in a visible way or behind the scenes prefers to support my involvement in a supportive background role considers ministry as my responsibility, not hers/his believes ministry in the church is a detriment to our family life N/A 13. I make it a priority to schedule at least one time a week for relaxation and/or family fun. Only a drastic emergency can interfere with this time regularly schedule a time of relaxation/refreshment with my spouse or for me personally (if not married) have a date with my spouse or a personal time of relaxation and fun (if single), when I can schedule it have a full calendar of work related activities with little time for recreation, relaxation or family fun because my position/work requires that of me 14. When new people start coming to my church, I try to encourage others to invite them to a small group gathering I personally visit them I usually let them visit a few times before inviting them to my home I simply allow them to build relationships on their own 15. I perceive the primary role of a pastor/leader would be to train and equip the people to serve/lead lead and administrate the work of the church preach the Good News of Jesus at my church care for the needs of the people 16. I believe the style of worship for a church should be flexible to changing times and people set when the church first starts and changed only when the leadership changes traditional and match time-honored Seventh-day Adventist values what the pastor/church leaders like 17. The way I prefer to learn about the needs of my community is through getting to know people personally in the community the U.S. Census Data or data from the local conference conducting a community assessment survey trial and error. Do an outreach, then learn from what went wrong/right 18. I believe the best way to discover my spiritual gifts is to take a spiritual gift assessment survey and have a personal interview with a pastor/leader before trying an area of serving try different areas of serving and find out what works reflect on what I like to do/motivates me and try doing something that incorporates that wait to be asked by leaders/nominating committee to serve in some way 19. On a scale of 1-4, with 1 being the lowest and 4 the highest, I would describe my capacity for multiple assignments to be: 4 3 2 1 20. When I am in a group of Christians that are divided over an issue, I help them focus on what we are called to do serve as referee to bring peace use the Bible/E.G. White writings to show the fault of their actions probably find myself choosing sides 21. What are your top three (3) reasons for your interest in church planting? 22. In times of hardship and disappointment I usually strengthen my resolve to continue to follow the direction the Lord has given me for my life may get discouraged for a while, but I go to the Lord and renew my pursuit of His direction for me usually struggle with strong feelings of defeat and resign myself to the circumstances I am facing often am so deeply affected that I feel isolated from other Christians and begin to ignore God 23. On a scale of one to four, how convinced are you that God has called you to plant a church? (1 being not convinced and 4 being thoroughly convinced) 4 3 2 1 24. Would you be comfortable working closely with people of a different denomination when planting a church? Yes No 1 out of 2 Name Email Time's up
