I agree. Planting a church should be about planting the gospel and seeing it grow a gospel-centered church. BUT planting churches is only ONE way to plant the gospel in an area or a city.
New City Church is committed to church planting, but more, we are committed to planting the gospel. So we are talking, praying, and working toward other ways to plant the gospel in Middle Georgia.
One of those ways is by planting gospel-centered MEN in Middle Georgia. We just finished up a class led by Cameron Barham, one of our New City, Macon elders, to teach guys how to preach. This was what I would consider a seminary level preaching course and included men from New City Church, Warner Robins, New City Church, Milledgeville, and New City Church, Macon. Our hope is to plant these men in the pulpits of existing Middle Georgia churches as pulpit supply for churches who need a preacher to cover a short period of time, as interim pastors for churches seeking a pastor, and as long term pastors to shepherd congregations in the gospel for years to come.
Yesterday one of our New City, Macon partners, Damon Gardzelewski became the lead pastor of Bloomfield Gardens Baptist Church in Macon. I have initiated conversations with a few other local churches recently on behalf of another New City, Macon partner who is ready and able to serve as a lead pastor. In addition I recently offered our guys as pulpit supply for a couple of small local congregations looking for a pastor. We are praying that God would use these men to plant the gospel throughout Middle Georgia. Would you pray that with us?
