Multi-Site: Part 1
I just got back from Arizona. The weather down there was amazing. I could blog about that all day!
We met with ten multi-site churches that represent more than 50,000 people! It is always inspiring to be around high-impact churches. You hope there is some osmosis!
Here are a few thoughts I picked up this week:
Voice
I think one key to writing and preaching and leading is discovering your voice. I think communicators need voice lessons, but I don't mean that in the singing sense. We need to develop confidence in the way we're wired. We need to be willing to say things a little differently. We need to dare to be different! I think this is in keeping with our core value: maturity doesn't equal conformity.
Deployment
Paul Evanson, a from Starbucks Corporate Trainer, shared about leadership development, but I love one distinction he made. They call it leadership deployment. That fits with our belief in baptism by immersion.
I think we need to develop a more comprehensive leadership deployment plan corporately as a church. We're doing leadership development extremely well in some pockets, but you can never do too much of it! I think it's one key to our continued growth and multiplication to new locations!
Exporting
I like to think of NCC as working in the research and development department of the Kingdom of God. I think we're called to be lab monkeys. We need to keep experimenting with new ways of doing church. But we also need to be in the export business. I want us to share everything we do with others as a way of equipping the Church-at-large.
Syncronize
Every so often I syncronize my cell phone with my computer. I think vision casting is syncronizing. One danger is "getting ahead of the body." Sometimes the mind is willing but the body is weak! I think we need to more consitently communicate our vision and mission. We're all about helping people find their way back to God. I'm thinking about a series on our core values because they are corporate, but they are personally applicable!
We met with ten multi-site churches that represent more than 50,000 people! It is always inspiring to be around high-impact churches. You hope there is some osmosis!
Here are a few thoughts I picked up this week:
Voice
I think one key to writing and preaching and leading is discovering your voice. I think communicators need voice lessons, but I don't mean that in the singing sense. We need to develop confidence in the way we're wired. We need to be willing to say things a little differently. We need to dare to be different! I think this is in keeping with our core value: maturity doesn't equal conformity.
Deployment
Paul Evanson, a from Starbucks Corporate Trainer, shared about leadership development, but I love one distinction he made. They call it leadership deployment. That fits with our belief in baptism by immersion.
I think we need to develop a more comprehensive leadership deployment plan corporately as a church. We're doing leadership development extremely well in some pockets, but you can never do too much of it! I think it's one key to our continued growth and multiplication to new locations!
Exporting
I like to think of NCC as working in the research and development department of the Kingdom of God. I think we're called to be lab monkeys. We need to keep experimenting with new ways of doing church. But we also need to be in the export business. I want us to share everything we do with others as a way of equipping the Church-at-large.
Syncronize
Every so often I syncronize my cell phone with my computer. I think vision casting is syncronizing. One danger is "getting ahead of the body." Sometimes the mind is willing but the body is weak! I think we need to more consitently communicate our vision and mission. We're all about helping people find their way back to God. I'm thinking about a series on our core values because they are corporate, but they are personally applicable!
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