Finding Our “Ant Hill”
Posted by mmt1272 on August 7, 2008
I began a one-year church planting residency today with Tim Wolfe, lead pastor of 1027Church in Atlanta. Tim has a wealth of church planting and pastoral leadership experience to pass on. The next twelve months are going to be intense.
One of the things Tim shared today was that I need to find our “ant hill”. What!? Essentially, if you follow one ant, they will always lead you to their ant hill where there are hundreds, even thousands of others like them. Tim’s understanding is that it is common for church planter’s to meet someone in the community and then immediately look for ways to connect that one person with our ant hill – the church. Tim’s thoughts are that if we meet one person, say at Starbucks, we should build a long-term relationship with that person to learn about and enter their world. Eventually they will lead us to their “ant hill” where we can meet hundreds, even thousands like them.
A good word, Tim.
