Multisite Phenomenon
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Leadership Straight from Bill Hybels
Multisite Phenomenon
The multisite phenomenon
has swept the world
more pervasively than any other single
church trend that I have seen in 15 years.
This may have started
in North America.
But multisite works globally.
I have seen it all
over the world.
It is astounding.
It operates on a simple premise.
If you have a church
and this church has the components
to make it 'rock.'
you can take some of
those same components
and open another expression of that church
with those 'rocking' components.
Giftedness, teachers,
worship style and strategies.
Predictably you will get
a similar reaction over here
because if it congealed to be
positively combustible here
you have to believe
it will work here as well.
It is similar to the franchise
model in the business world.
If you have a fantastic
restaurant here
you take the recipes, chef and all
the stuff and see if it can work there.
This is the video model
that I am talking about
where original programming,
most of the same strategies
but probably the same preaching that happens
here also happens via screen there.
It is working all over the world.
When it does not work is
if this is a sick church here
and to get it well you will launch
this church over here
which will be sicker.
It takes a healthy church
to plant a healthy multisite.
I watch pastors who think
if their church is sick
the solution is
to plant another one.
No, that is exactly backwards.
It is fix this.
Get this church 'rocking' here.
Then there is a much higher probability
that this one will 'rock' over here.
This is pervasive now
all over the world.
We have six multisite or regional sites.
If you think about it,
in the Chicago area
where the demographics are
congruent or continuous.
We have six campus pastors
who get the same signal.
In other words,
if I preach a message
the message goes to these sites.
It is the same message.
Some of my campus pastors will leverage
the signal 1, 2, 3, 4 fold.
Isn't that fascinating.
We have a site of 1000,
two in the 2000 range.
We have one that will break 3000 soon.
We have a newer one at 600
and in remote location.
What I am saying is
with the same signal
the difference is the capacity
of the leader.
You would think that all things being
the same the multisites grow similarly.
They grow closer in congruity with the capacity
and giftedness of the campus pastor
than any other variable.
Which shows you
the power of leadership.
Someone can take my sermons
and show them once,
twice or more times.