Being Intentional with Church Organisation and What to do When ‘Trying Harder’ Isn’t Helping

Why being intentional with church organisation early on is important…

All of us have been there, either with a church plant trying to make a difference in a new community or with church life where the growth has flattened out and the members have become stale.

In the article from Tony Morgan, he discusses ways you can re-ignite church growth when Trying harder just isn’t working anymore. He talks about refreshing the vision, structures, systems and finding new input or voices on your situation. Go have a read through it.

If you find that your church has stagnated in a specific season, it might me time to change the strategy for the church. Different seasons need different people at the helm of the church, different structures for staff and different tools for each season.

It is important to buckle down, take stock and then make the changes needed.

It takes energy and change management to make these changes to a church — staff, members and volunteers all need to buy into the changes. That is why it is important to put systems and structures in place that can scale with your church as it grows and go through different seasons.

Being intentional with organising the church in the early stages can save you a lot of time and effort later on.

Changing the direction of a sailboat is much easier than changing the direction of a container ship at speed. Here are some aspects to consider early on.

• Vision: Keep the vision big in enough to inspire, and specific enough to be practical.
• Structures: Structures you put in place need to work for 50 members, 200 members and possibly 500 members. These include the way you structure staff, the way you mobilise volunteers and how you structure your discipleship process. It is important to note though that the same structures won’t always work for a 100 members church and a 1000 member church — you will have to improve and update somewhere on that scale.
• Systems: Systems are that way we easily scale and reproduce our fruit. This would include your administration systems, how you appoint staff, organise your ministry team and plant churches or campuses. Some systems you will have to change when you get to a certain growth point and others can scale with you like your church administration system. Some systems like GoDoChurch can work for a church plant of 50 members all the way to a multi site church with thousands of members.

Being intentional with the operational side of a ministry early on can save you many hours of effort and heartache down the line. It can also make that season when trying harder isn’t working so much shorter.

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