I was out for a walk this morning. God was so good. I woke up at 5 am this morning which was unusual for me, prayed for a couple delivering their first baby, prayed for a cousin with health issues, rejoiced over an opportunity yesterday that may turn into a part time job for me and make some connections I really wanted to make with a new church I am planting.
So as I was walking, I was thinking about what my job title should be for a new church plant pastor. Right now the website says, “Senior Pastor” while our worship leader has a cool title, “Worship Architect”. I want something cool too, not just another senior pastor.
I was thinking about being called “Planter” [now a visual of the peanut guy did come to mind with top hat and cane] but “Planter” seemed appropriate and not just church planter, but “God Planter” - planting God into people’s hearts. Or maybe “people planter” - planting people into a new church setting, especially the unchurched, the disenfranchised with church.
I already knew that my first Sunday sermon was going to be from Ecclesiastes 11. Don’t wait for perfect conditions or you will never get anything done. Don’t wait to start reading your bible, or don’t wait to go to church, or don’t wait to start a church - cause it may never get done. Be sure to stay busy and plant a variety of crops, for you never know which will grow - perhaps they all will.
So what do you think about title’s for church pastors? I was at a church plant conference where the “senior pastor” called himself the “head muckity-muck”. For the moment I really feel like a “Planter”. Throw some good suggestions my way, I want a cool title, not just “senior pastor.”