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Startup Vision

Startup Vision. Our EFCA Mission. The Evangelical Free Church movement exists to glorify God by multiplying healthy churches among all people. Churches: 1300 Plants: 200. ReachGlobal & ReachNational. ReachNational: Start Churches. Church Planting Church Health Hispanic African American

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Startup Vision

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  1. Startup Vision

  2. Our EFCA Mission • The Evangelical Free Church movement exists to glorify God by multiplying healthy churches among all people. • Churches: 1300 • Plants: 200

  3. ReachGlobal & ReachNational

  4. ReachNational: Start Churches • Church Planting • Church Health • Hispanic • African American • Student Ministries • Family Ministries • Resound: Woman • ENCORE: Older Adults

  5. Planting War Stories

  6. Start Together: 18 Districts Better Together!

  7. District Support: ACTS

  8. EFCA Startup Vision • With 240 million people disconnected from the church … Our vision is to bring pleasure to God by mobilizing a church planting movement in the United States where every healthy church will become a reproducing church and no church planter will be left alone.

  9. Bootcamp Vision • To equip planters to start healthy, growing, reproducing churches.

  10. Health, Growth, Reproduction

  11. Healthy Churches

  12. Health is Complex

  13. HEALTH CHECKUP + + + +

  14. Church Health Lessons

  15. Secret In Adjectives

  16. 65% Hypothesis • As soon as a church reached the 65% index in all eight essentials, quantitative growth resulted in all the churches we surveyed, without exception.

  17. Minimum Factor

  18. SIMPLE COMPLEXITY

  19. STARTUP DASHBOARD CONTACTS/ VISITORS UNCHURCHED CONVERTS WORKERS DISCIPLES LEADERS

  20. Below Surface Diagnostics

  21. Growing Churches

  22. Growth Benchmarks • Year One:100 • Year Two: 200 • Year Three: Reproduce

  23. Gigantic Vision

  24. Why Chase This Dream?

  25. Health Demands It!

  26. Why I Am Hopeful

  27. Four Minute Mile • Greek Olympics to 1954: Impossible! • 1954: Roger Bannister • 1955: 37 runners • 1956: 300 runners • Today: All college

  28. Corn Production 4 bushels/year 16 bushels/year 120 bushels/year

  29. Snapshot: American Church Mega Church Church Plants

  30. Churches: Faster & Larger Today: Every Three Days A Church = Megachurch

  31. Two Cautions

  32. God Still Gives Growth I planted … Apollos watered … … But God gave the growth! I Cor. 3:6

  33. Growth ≠ Planter Identity

  34. Reproducing Churches

  35. Unlimited Growth • Growth is not unlimited in God's creation. A healthy organism doesn't keep growing indefinitely, but brings forth other organisms, which in their turn also multiply.

  36. Reproduction Reproduction is natural and normal. Christianity has always expanded through the multiplication of churches.

  37. American Church • “How did Christianity change from a faith spread primarily through church planting to a faith in which church planting has become an unusual practice?” • Ed Stetzer

  38. Start Two • We have sunk to such a low state, that the first duty of intelligent men is to restate the obvious. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

  39. 1. Replace Yourself CHURCH LIFECYCLE

  40. 2. Expand Kingdom

  41. Principle Centered Training

  42. The End

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