I heard Craig Groeschel said something that continues to resonate with me. He said, we have a tendency of overestimating what God wants to do short-term and underestimating what he wants to do long-term. Yet, they fail to plan for 5,000 long term. For instance, we get disappointed and disillusion when we don’t see things happen as fast as we would like to in the short-term. Yet, we fail to establish systems to accomodate long-term growth. In my short journey of church planting, there have been times when I was disappointed at not seeing things grow as quickly as I desired. In the midst of it, we still had to begin establishing systems to accomodate growth. Systems are like shoes. Sometimes, you outgrow them and it’s back to the drawing board.
