5. Because You Simply Want to Grow
Other churches don’t need to grow to stay afloat, but instead, they want to grow simply because, well, they want to grow.
The logic goes like this: Healthy things grow, right? So we should add a campus, or add a service or embark on a building campaign to make more space.
Well, maybe. But actually maybe not.
But that healthy ‘thing’ should already be growing, to the point where you need to make a move or it just makes sense to make a move.
Expanding so you’ll start growing is like saying you want to get married so you’ll fall in love. No, you get married because you’ve fallen in love.
Usually, a church should expand because one of two things is happening:
There’s not enough room for people who are already coming.
You’ve got a thriving ministry in one location and you want to bring it to a new location.
Remember, you never reproduce who you want to be. You reproduce who you are.
What often happens when you expand because you want to expand is that you will end up with more debt, more complexity, more stagnation and more confusion.
Dying at one location = 12 feet under at two locations.
Expanding for the sake of expansion is not a growth strategy; it’s actually an implosion strategy.
