Cats don't make tracks. Sheep make tracks. But cats have made a path from the mentally vulnerable housing on one side of us to the church-turned-into-a-mosque on the other side. All it takes is the inmates of the supported housing to dig under our fence, and the cats have done the rest. It makes no sense but it's real.
Our sheep track is the eleven stage church planting loop. Our cat path is everything we've actually done so far. So just how far can you bypass key principles:
Find the leader first.
Build the team.
Lay the team and logistical groundwork.
Support, train, review, grow.
Repeat.
We did it in Longsight. We might have to do it in Cheetham Hill. Are we not waiting on God, are we not praying hard enough over that leadership, or do we just have to walk along the cat paths that God's people make?
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