The timing of these lofty discussions about helping Mark nurse this sick church back to health was unbelievably bad. My entrepreneurial capacity for new opportunities had served The Journey well. Not only had The Journey been able to plant an autonomous church of its own, we had also started training dozens of pastors each quarter from multiple denominations and networks. Acts 29 was growing as well, demanding much travel from me as I was tasked with decentralizing our network into regions all over the country. The Journey itself had grown to seven hundred people in two locations, and we were
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