It means a group of leaders has prayed and thought through the future, chosen what they believe is the best path to accomplish the mission, and then invited others along.
They focus on who they want to reach, not who they want to keep.
And usually (if the clarity points them in the right direction), they reach them.
7. Risk and Experimentation
To accomplish a radically new future with church growth, you will have to do radically different things.
The people you’re trying to reach don’t care what you did yesterday. Actually, they don’t really care what you’re doing today.
This scares the socks off of most of us. After all, risk is for risk-takers, and many of us are not crazy risk-takers.
Whether that’s pop-up church, micro campuses, new approaches to social or even different ways to connect people, your church needs to rethink its current methods to accomplish its mission.
If you want to see some church trends to spark your thinking, here are some posts I wrote about disruptive church trends over the last few years:
You can start experimenting today. And keep doing it.
Will you need to do some big stuff? Sure. But you’ll also need to try some little things. Experimentation can happen in anything.
Here’s a current example we’re trying at Connexus Church where I serve.
