
Episode 179: On How to Plant a Church (with Eric Bancroft & Matt Smethurst)
Pastors Talk - A podcast by 9Marks
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Are You Teaching Relationships?
I think sometimes it can be tempting for planters to lean into this sort of like gospel primacy as far as emphasis that we just want to get the gospel right and relational strength. We don't want to kind of trip over these obstacles of relationship by having sort of institutional documents. It's very important from the very beginning to kind of create the fence by which this church is going to live within doctrinally and relationally. And so for the very statement of faith and your covenant exactly right. So you taught through those documents in those Sunday night core team meetings. That's right. Now we're teaching more than that. The challenge that I would say is making sure that yourself would trust
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