Lead Your Church Beyond Addition to Multiplication

From Apple to Starbucks to your favorite local restaurant, every organization has a culture. And whether or not you realize it, your church is creating a culture. It’s what you become known for, and it powerfully shapes the way you see the world as well as the decisions you make.

Culture strategist Brian Zehr says it plainly: “What makes your church work or not work is the culture you have. So we need to pay attention to and define the culture we’re creating for our church.”

In growth terms, are you developing a “survival culture” characterized by what you will do after you grow and can afford it? Or maybe an “addition-growth” culture defined by an insatiable drive for conquering the next hill and breaking the next growth barrier? Or are you creating a “multiplication culture,” best described as release versus consumption and movement versus accumulation?

As a leader, your role in stewarding and cultivating culture may be the most important one you play. Value survival, and you’ll establish a scarcity or subtraction culture. Value addition growth, and you’ll establish an addition culture. Value multiplication, and you’ll establish a sending culture. Read More

We should take a cue from the dandelion. One tiny plant in the corner of a field can fill the field with dandelions.