Startup Vision

Our EFCA Mission

• The Evangelical Free Church movement exists to glorify God by multiplying healthy churches among all people.

– Churches: 1300– Plants: 200

ReachGlobal & ReachNational

ReachNational: Start Churches

1. Church Planting2. Church Health3. Hispanic4. African American5. Student Ministries6. Family Ministries7. Resound: Woman8. ENCORE: Older

Adults

Planting War Stories

Urban Legend: 80% Failure Rate

Research: 68% Success Rate

EFCA: 87% Success Rate

Start Together: 18 Districts

Better Together!

District Support: ACTSA

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EFCA Startup Vision

• With 240 million people disconnected from the church … Our vision is to bring pleasure to God by mobilizing a church planting movement in the United States where every healthy church will become a reproducing church and no church planter will be left alone.

Bootcamp Vision

• To equip planters to start healthy, growing, reproducing churches.

Health, Growth, Reproduction

Healthy Things Grow

Growing Things Mature

Mature Things

Reproduce

Reproduction Produces

Health

Healthy Churches

Health is Complex

HEALTH CHECKUP

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Church Health Lessons

Secret In Adjectives

65% Hypothesis

• As soon as a church reached the 65% index in all eight essentials, quantitative growth resulted in all the churches we surveyed, without exception.

Quality Quantity Health Growth

Minimum Factor

SIMPLE COMPLEXITY

STARTUP DASHBOARD

DISCIPLESCONVERTS WORKERS LEADERS

CONTACTS/VISITORSUNCHURCHED

Below Surface Diagnostics

Few Visitors• Prospecting & Networking?

Lack of Funding• Active Support Building Work?

Not Reaching Unchurched• Bridge Building Activities?

Lack of Leaders• Leadership Development Systems?

Growing Churches

Growth Benchmarks

• Year One:100• Year Two: 200• Year Three: Reproduce

Gigantic Vision

93%

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Why Chase This Dream?

Jn.15 •Jesus wants it.

83% •Harvest demands it.

120+ •Early Church.

100 •Planters need it.

Health Demands It!

• At Risk?

100

• Missional?

200

• Ingrown?

Reproduce

Why I Am Hopeful

Four Minute Mile

• Greek Olympics to 1954: Impossible!

• 1954: Roger Bannister

• 1955: 37 runners• 1956: 300 runners• Today: All college

Corn Production

4 bushels/year

16 bushels/year

120 bushels/year

Snapshot: American Church

Church Plants

Mega Church

Churches: Faster & Larger

1984

2004

2007

0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400

Megachurches: 2,000

Today: Every Three Days A Church = Megachurch

Two Cautions

God Still Gives Growth

I planted … Apollos watered …… But God gave the growth!

I Cor. 3:6

Growth ≠ Planter Identity

Reproducing Churches

Unlimited Growth

• Growth is not unlimited in God's creation. A healthy organism doesn't keep growing indefinitely, but brings forth other organisms, which in their turn also multiply.

Reproduction

Reproduction is natural and normal. Christianity has always expanded through the

multiplication of churches.

American Church

• “How did Christianity change from a faith spread primarily through church planting to a faith in which church planting has become an unusual practice?”– Ed Stetzer

Start Two

• We have sunk to such a low state, that the first duty of intelligent men is to restate the obvious. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

1. Replace Yourself

CHURCH LIFECYCLE

2. Expand Kingdom

Principle Centered Training

The End