3. Fuzziness on why people invite friends.
When launching your first campus, you’ll need to decide what to export to the new location. If there isn’t organizational clarity on what is most important, it will be difficult to make that transition smoothly. It doesn’t matter as much what leaders think needs to be exported—it matters what people in the church think is great about your church. Work hard to replicate that well.
4. Leaders who don’t build systems struggle with multiste church.
There are some church leaders who look down on documentation and repeatable processes because they see them as less spiritual. Those leaders have a harder time making the transition to multisite because the entire ministry is built on systems. You need people in your leadership who can care for people through structuring a nurturing environment and not just by meeting one on one with people. Leaders need to be able to scale their influence through building a systematic approach to ministry.
5. Ego-driven leaders.
If you are the sort of leader who needs to get credit for everything that happens, don’t go multisite. If you are the sort of leader who needs every team to look to you for direction and answers, multisite church is not for you. One of the great paradoxes of multisite is that it is often criticized because it elevates a few leaders over a larger number of communities. My experience is that leaders who thrive in multisite are people who can empower, defer and encourage a wide variety of leaders. They give up control to allow their ministry to multiply. Think hard before you make this step: Are you willing to draw in other leaders and release the ministry over to them?
This article about mustisite church originally appeared here, and is used by permission.
