Expoconf – Organizing for Reproduction

Organizing for Reproduction

Alan Hirsh & Dave Ferguson

Dave

There needs to be several shifts in our church values and practices and thinking if we will become reproducing churches.

1. 
   Strategy Shift: Move from reactive to pro-active
   
   1. It's not about 80% full
      
   2. It's about artist and leader readiness
      
2. Values Shift: Prefer
   
   1. New more than old
      
   2. Edge more than center
      
   3. Change more than same
      
   4. Lost more than found
      
   5. Going more than staying
      
   6. Multiplication more than addition
      
3. Leaders move from Ministry Management to Ministry Entrepreneurship
   
4. Organizing to go multisite (directors oversee these areas for each/all campuses)
   
   1. Arts
      
   2. Business
      
   3. Community
      
   4. Authority runs north and south/influence runs east and west as opposed to just our tradition silo structuring
      

 

Alan

3 SIGNIFICANT REPRODUCING ADVANCES (MISSIONAL/INCARNATIONAL)

Movements that change the world have the structure of network, not a hierarchy

1. Individuals
   
2. Cells
   
3. Other organizations
   

One DNA that can reproduce from a single part of it. (Read the Starfish and the spider) Chop off spider's legs, it dies. Chop off the legs of the starfish, each leg growth another whole starfish. We need to create organizations that do the same. (See Pay It Forward movie as another example).