What Every Church Planter Wished Their Sending Organizations and Supporters Knew About Startups

As you can imagine, since I spend countless hours each week coaching church planters and pastors to launch startup businesses, I’ve heard many stories. Now what kind of stories am I talking about? Imagine for a moment, the first time you heard of or even considered starting a business (an actual legit business) while planting a church, you probably either laughed out loud or felt a tinge of guilt for even thinking it. There’s also an element of the idea being a bit scandalous. Shady?

When I first...