This happened a few years ago now but I remember it vividly. I was at our local recreation ground in South London. A VW van drove into the car park and a tall athletic guy in sports gear, running spikes and a backwards baseball got out. He opened the back of the van and pulled out a harness and cable, put on the harness, attached himself to the front of the van and started to try to pull the van. Like they do on World's Strongest Man. He leaned forward, strained every sinew, pumped his legs. And nothing happened. He keeps straining. Eventually, the van moves a fraction. He pumps his legs and strains again. Finally he overcomes the inertia, gets some momentum and is able to start walking the van across the car park. I've no idea what he was training for but whoever this guy was, he was reminding me that getting something started is hard. That's where entrepreneurship and church planting are similar. Or starting any new thing, any good endeavour, any gospel work. You're s...
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