Michael Clary had reached the end of his rope. The 35-year-old church planter had been in Cincinnati nearly 18 months. Other than the Baptist association's director of missions, he didn't know anyone when he arrived. After slowly and surely putting together a core team, an admittedly poor leadership choice threatened to tear it all apart.
People were questioning his leadership; some left the church. And Clary was questioning himself.
"We had gone from zero to 30 and back down to 15 after a year and a half," said Clary, a North American Mission Board missionary. He pondered "all this wasted time, all this wasted effort."
"I wondered, 'Are we sunk?'" Keep reading
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