Randy Bohlender just posted his online interview with our Lead Pastor.
As many of you know, I was a church planter in a former life….
After 3 1/2 years, we had changed nearly everything and still were unable to build to critical mass…so we changed leaders. I stepped down and handed it off to a very capable pastor. Alas, it was probably a year too late, and ultimately, the entity dissolved….
Probably due to our experience, I’ve had a morbid fascination with unsuccessful church plants. I’m thinking Church Plant CSI is probably in order.
While we were in Cincinnati, I became good friends with Tom Planck. We were close in age, geography, vision and experience. The only difference was that Tom had been struggling with New Life Community Church for longer than I did with SpiritLife. He was still struggling with it when I folded up and joined the staff of the Vineyard Community Church.
One day, I got thise strange email…Tom was sticking a fork in it. He was closing the church, but he was calling it a reboot. After ten years he was stopping to restart. We gave him the thumbs up but secretly were saying Hail Mary’s because frankly, this is the nuttiest thing I’ve heard of since the invention of the Almond Joy bar.
Nevertheless, he’s done it. Tom relaunched Journey three weeks ago.
Read the entire Interview here… An Interview with Tom Planck: Lead Singer of Journey….sort of.