I’ve been thinking through organizational health lately. Patrick Lencioni has a book out entitled The Advantage that speaks to this specific area. It seems that organizational health is big. The big idea is that you need a healthy culture before you can have a growing thriving organization. All the other things, knowing your burn rate, staying fiscally solvent, balancing budget, systems, structures, are important. They’re important, in that they’re permission to play, permission to get in the game. They won’t keep you there though. Continue reading “Organizational Health Is Big”
Drew Steadman – Antioch’s Time Is Now
- Years ago we asked What if we, not only start movements overseas, but also started a movement in the U.S?
- We’re not an old movement, but we’re not a group of college students in a basement trying to figure things out.
- We were made for the impossible.
- We are at a shift point. Continue reading “Drew Steadman – Antioch’s Time Is Now”
Jimmy Seibert – A New Thing
- We are all a part of something bigger than ourselves
- God get’s all the glory, because He initiates and we respond Continue reading “Jimmy Seibert – A New Thing”
Sheeran’s A Team and Purpose – Part 2
Once after playing paintball all day and getting dehydrated, I had thought that I was really hungry. Once my friend and I got to the restaurant we were going too, we ended up drinking two full pitchers of water each while waiting for our food. Turns out we were both simply really thirsty. I think we took our food home in to go boxes to enjoy later. We thought we needed food, when we really needed water. We had misplaced our hunger. Continue reading “Sheeran’s A Team and Purpose – Part 2”
Sheeran’s A Team and Purpose – Part 1
If you listen to the radio at all you’ve probably heard “The A Team” by Ed Sheeran. It hitĀ 16 on theĀ Billboard charts several months ago. The lyrics of the song haunts me a bit. I think the combination of the lyrics, and the fact that it got so high on the billboard charts so quickly, haunt me even more. It speaks to our culture’s view of longing and how to find something that satisfies. I want to go into this more, but the reality of our lives is that we were created to be addicted. The issue is what we’re addicted to. Continue reading “Sheeran’s A Team and Purpose – Part 1”
Multi-Site Church: Be Technologically Consistent
At Conversatio Morum we’ve been doing a series on the Multi-Site model of church. Since we’re dedicated to Theology, Technology, and Missiology, we’re spending the last two posts on the Technological side of things. The last post dealt with the practicals of thinking through technology and viewing it as an investment. You can read that here. This is the final post in the Multi-Site Church series and I want to take some time to deal with the final piece, consistency. Continue reading “Multi-Site Church: Be Technologically Consistent”
Multi-Site Church: Tech of Multi-Site
We’ve been doing a series of posts on the Multi-Site model of church’s here at Conversatio Morum. Since we are dedicated to Technology, Theology, Missiology and we’ve talked extensively about Multi-Site from a theological and missiological standpoint, we’ll talk from a technological standpoint in this point. I stated previously here that you shouldn’t go multi-site unless you’re ready to both A) significantly invest in and B) significantly think about technology. The reason for this is the same across any organization. Growth, introduces “problems”. Throwing technology “solutions” at problems without any forethought to the actual cause will never fix the “problem”. Continue reading “Multi-Site Church: Tech of Multi-Site”
Multi-Site Church: When to Multi-Site
Here at Conversatio Morum we’ve been talking about the Multi-Site model of church. Today I want to drill down a bit on when you should move from a single campus to the multi-site model. The hope here is to help church’s that are considering going that route while also giving a push to the realization that this model isn’t for everyone, all the time. So here are some points about when you know it’s the right time. Continue reading “Multi-Site Church: When to Multi-Site”
Multi-Site Church: bigger and bigger to go smaller and smaller
Here at Conversatio Morum we’ve been talking about the Multi-Site model of church. One of the key things, when dealing with church growth is that once you pass 120 you’ve effectively moved past the point at which everyone in a room can know everyone else. This has become one of the milestones that “successful” churches must pass when planting. It’s the point that rules regarding economies of scale begin to come into effect. However, once you hit this point in growth, how do you maintain the ability to develop community involvement and keep people in real, life changing, intentional, relationships with each other? Continue reading “Multi-Site Church: bigger and bigger to go smaller and smaller”
Multi-Site Church: Economies Of Scale
Currently at Conversatio Morum we’re covering the Multi-Site model of church. This is a model with which I’m familiar and I find myself doing significant reading on. While reading something from Mark Batterson there was a reference to one advantage for this model being an Economy of Scale. Economies of Scale is a business term used to describe the point at which the growth of an organization has made it the most efficient. In terms of church, this is an interesting application when you put this in a multi-site church context. Continue reading “Multi-Site Church: Economies Of Scale”