Too many activities?

I approached this year’s planning with the thinking that we should strip back our church’s level of activities. It was a thought not so much provoked by the difficulty of organising activities and events (don’t get me wrong, there is work involved). Nor was it a thought driven by a lack of value in any particular event – there are always people who grow to be more like Christ when they meet with other Christians around the Word of God; people do take opportunities to invite people to hear the Gospel; and so on.

Rather, it was a thought arising from Jim Collins observation of the flywheel. In ‘Good to Great’, Collins makes the simple observation that a flywheel develops momentum with several small turns, rather than a few big ones.

Applied to an evangelical church, this means that the impact of someone actively participating in seemingly ‘smaller’ activities like church on Sunday or a Growth Group has a far more significant impact on both them individually and also the church, when compared to the impact of someone attending a few ‘larger scale’ events. Keep reading