One of the questions asked at the SBM Open Night was "what challenges do you expect SBM to face next year?" The answers were so good that I want to record them. The leadership team said:
- As a new church, it's easy to get caught up in the fun and excitement of it, and forget our real goal: reaching non-Christians with the gospel message. We need to stay outsider-focused.
- We need to stay faithful to the Bible. We're a relatively young, inexperienced group of leaders - if we're not careful, we could easily stray from Biblical truthfulness.
- This is the first time we've done a church plant. We don't really know what we're doing!
- Our uni ministry is losing most of its leaders, 'coz they're graduating. We need new leaders for next year.
- While we want to focus on subcontinentals, we can't exclude others - the church is for all people. How are we going to run that balance?
- Church planting is hard work. After the initial excitement, tensions will show and nerves start to fray. We need to work on relationships.
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