About This Blog

Hi there! Thanks for stopping by. I’m deeply honored that you would stop in to read the things I write here.

This blog is an exploration of ideas related to what I perceive as a call to become a church planter.   Let me take a moment for a proper introduction.

My name is Rob Mitchell, and I’m a follower of Christ, husband to a lovely and brilliant wife, and father to three small children – two daughters and a son, all below ten twelve years old.  I’m a graduate of Reformed Theological Seminary’s Virtual Campus.

We are members of an Evangelical Presbyterian Church, and I’m a candidate for ministry in our Presbytery.

Most of the ministry candidates the Presbytery will interview are younger, better looking and better educated than me (and certainly have more hair!) But this is a calling that won’t let me go. My wife is in complete agreement that we need more church plants and a better ecclesiological approach for today’s culture, but she sometimes gets apprehensive when contemplating that God is calling us to be a church planting family. The uncertainties cause her some concern, and I suppose this is sensible on her part — she has a household and three kids she’s thinking of. If I were in her position, I would wonder too if this man she’s married is really called by God or if he’s just pursuing some sort of personal ambition or lust for adventure.

There’s a blog posting here that goes into the whole “Naked Church” thing in greater detail, but when I talk about the naked church what I have in mind is a church that isn’t covered up by a bunch of unwritten behavioral and cultural rules, but where one can see the gospel in action. As it develops I’ll also add some more stuff here.

Thanks again for doing me the honor of reading this stuff. I’m astonished and humbled that anyone would read this, but thankful that God brought you here (and if He didn’t, why else do you think you’re here?)

Be well, and at peace with God and man.

Do write! Please feel free to email me here: robinson dot mitchell at gmail dot com, or leave a comment and let me know if you like what you see, if it offends you, or if it leaves you cold.