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  • Merrit Island, FL
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Pastor's Corner
A Factory Mindset
By Chris Lagerlof, Christ Together West Coast Regional Director

Recently I was with a group of pastors and business leaders from Southern California. Our discussion was focused on how to most effectively and efficiently multiply churches and campuses To get the conversation rolling, I simply wrote, "Build a car vs. build a factory" on the whiteboard and said discuss. It was fun to sit back and watch them share their thoughts and reflections. The reality is that there is a huge difference between building a car and a factory even though the final product or deliverables are similar. Our conversation was really focused on these questions:
  1. How much time, energy and resources do churches spend launching one church plant/campus as opposed to spending the same amount of time, energy and resources to "build" a factory that will launch many campuses/sites or plant many churches?
  2. What is the most effective way to multiply and reproduce what we do best?
  3. What ecosystems and infrastructure must to be in place to best support numerous church plants/campuses, as well as Church Planters?
  4. What is the most effective and efficient way to launch high impact, sustainable churches that transform communities and cities?
Remember these are bright guys. Here is a summary of some of their observations:
Building a Factory:
    • Is about economy of scale
    • Puts emphasis on the process (clear beginning and end)
    • Reduces costs
    • Is about long term strategies and vision
    • Increases productivity
    • Is more sustainable
    • Focuses on a specialized skill
    • Produces a more reliable product
    • Requires bigger vision
    • Is less resilient to change and transition
    • Has more flexibility and adaptability
    • Involves many specialists and experts
    • Involves increased accountability
    • Is focused on goals and measurable
    • Is easier to export
    • Requires leadership
Building a Car:
    • Dependent on skill of labor
    • The process tends to move slowly
    • Is difficult to reproduce
    • Can be more costly than expected
    • Requires resources that are difficult to find
    • Creates a product that is less reliable
    • The builder determines the process
    • Only needs small vision
    • Has less risk
In my opinion there are some great observations here. Here are some of my conclusions from our conversation.
  • Building a "factory" to plant churches and/or launch campuses may actually take less effort than just planting one and they can reproduce at a much faster more efficient rate.
  • The guys in the room are vision guys, builders and entrepreneurs. When talking about the building a factory, they seemed way more energized about how it could impact the church and new communities.
  • One Pastor noted that by planting one church or site doesn't change much of how we operate, by building a factory that rapidly produces churches everything about the current state of the church must change. There was energy around that thought!
  • It's easy to stop after planting a church, but building a factory keeps you focused, accountable and productive, therefore the results are greater.
  • It's hard to plant more than one church/campus at a time without a system in place to multiply rapidly.
  • Factories produce a more sustainable product, they can endure change and in the end they are far more cost efficient.
  • Factories have way more resources to get the job done.
  In closing, on my street there are 2 houses with custom cars in the garage and one house with a kit airplane. We have lived on our street for over 15 years and in that time the cars and airplane have never left the garage. I know the owners and at one time they had dreams of what they might produce and someday drive or fly. Their dreams have become places to store boxes and barriers to walk around in the garage. I asked one of my neighbor's when and why he decided to give up, he said years ago! It was hard work, I'm not a specialist and I don't have all the resources I need to finish the project. I thought it would be easy and it wasn't. I keep it because someday I plan to finish what I started. Interesting perspective form a guy who thought he could build a car but hasn't.
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The CT Resources are designed to initiate conversations and create environments for kingdom leaders to pray, learn, strategize and act in concert with God's mission in their community, town, city or region.  These tools and resources are being used by various expressions of the church across the country. 
 
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