This is the part where we’re supposed to tell you our wonderful credentials: our well-laid plans, our education and formal training, our 10+ years of urban, cross-cultural ministry in Los Angeles and other countries.  Yada, yada, yada.  One of our dreams is to dispel the myth that only seminary-trained professionals, paid clergy, and CEO type leaders can plant new churches.  Here are the real reasons why we’re (not) qualified to join God in His mission: 

1. We don’t know what we’re doing.
2. We are recovering addicts to sin, dependent on God’s Holy Spirit.
3. We don’t know what we’re doing, and that forces us to pray a lot.
4. Our training and finances will always be limited, but we have an endless supply of God’s love, hope, and tenacity to seek justice - just what the world needs.
5. We don’t know what we’re doing, and that reminds us that God causes growth and transformation, not us.
6. We have messy lives, just what God likes to use.
7. We don’t know what we’re doing, but we’re commited to making new mistakes, not repeating old ones.
8. We are Jesus-followers, and Jesus Christ provides what is needed when we join him in his mission.
9. We don’t know what we’re doing, and if we ever attribute God’s successes to our own ingenuity, just slap us, okay?
10. But God knows what He is doing, and He wants do it through ordinary people like you and me!