Friday, June 21, 2013

The Exchange: Multisite Evolution


What should be the 'new normal' for multisite churches?

Whatever your opinion of multisite may be, there can be no doubt it is the new normal.

Multisite has joined a list of models and approaches that were once out of the mainstream and now is commonplace-- most of us know of one or more multisite churches.

Though I would not have guessed it ten years ago, it's normal now. Read more
The Journey--the church with which I am sojourning--joined the ranks of the multisite churches in the past 12 months. The Journey now has two campuses--one in Murray, Kentucky, in Calloway County, and the other in Benton, Kentucky, in Marshall County. The two campuses are about a half-hour's drive from each other. The Journey also supports a church plant in eastern Kentucky, on the other side of the state. While Kentucky is located in the Southern Bible Belt and has numerous churches,  a large segment of the population is unchurched--more than 60% of the population in western Kentucky in which Calloway and Marshall Counties are located.

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