The Wrong Reasons to Go Covocational

Phil Thompson has pastored Christ Fellowship Eastside covocationally for five years, and at NewChurches.com he names six wrong reasons to take that path, from a hero complex to wanting to be appreciated. Under all six sits the same correction.

Covocational pastors need immense faith.

— Phil Thompson, via NewChurches.com

The math of planting and replanting in Iowa almost always runs through covocational work, so the motives matter here. Planters need Thompson's list to examine their own hearts, and sending churches need it to shape what they ask of the people they send. Read it before you write the job description.