Mark Hunnicutt

2008 Multi-site Exposed Breakout Insights

The Leadership Pipeline:  Mac Lake

Jesus’ 7 Leadership Practices

Confidence – God has gifted them and given them for to you to accomplish His purpose.  We must demonstrate this confidence when praying and approaching potential leaders.

Connection – The disciples were Jesus’ friends.  We have to make equipping leaders highly relational.

Content – Jesus constantly gave them content.  Give leaders stuff to study that will stretch them.

Coaching – He coached them.  Walk along side leaders and encourage them to grow.

Challenge – Jesus would stretch their faith.  Help leaders set goals and dream.

Cluster Learning – Jesus got leaders together and let them learn from each other.  Gather leaders from the same demographic and let them talk.

Conference – Jesus took them to groups gathering to learn.  Host or go to training conferences with your leaders.

Mac takes this paradigm and strains leadership actions through it.  He discovered the best way to do this was through apprenticships and web based learning.  People can then go at their own pace in every place. 

2008 Multi-site Exposed Day 1 Top 10 Take Aways

I love processing possible plans on how to reach more people for Jesus. Top ten day one 2008 MSEC take aways...

1. Don't allow an outside force to be a limiting factor to engaging people with the gospel. God is bigger than a city planning board or the price of land.
2. Network with like-minded people who have pioneered a similar plan.
3. Leverage your organizations unique DNA and as you decentralize increase DNA protection.
4. Prayer is a foundational component and should be valued and practiced.
5. Your churches first community impact should be organic grass roots service projects not programmatic publicity driven kickoffs.
6. Coldstone ice cream and shrimp & grits at breaks help you process plans. Yum!
7. You must personally recruit and lay out vision to smaller team before moving to big testimony.
8. There are multiple ways to accomplish objective. Your plan is not the plan.
9. You cannot remove the element of faith from any vision.
10. Constantly check your heart and your guts.

What did you take away from day one?

2008 Multi-site Exposed Conference Day 1

What an indredible day!  There is no doubt that a great church can impact a city.  Charleston is a great city and God working through Seacoast Church contributes to the culture.  Cheryl and I have been here many times to relax and recharge but I have never been here to refocus.  That is what is happening in me right now.  I have been challenged beyond my imagination with new paradigms and by meeting new people.

This post includes some pictures and previous post include my notes from today's two main sessions.  I can't wait to share with you these ideas and insights.  There are five guys from our team that couldn't quit talking and dreaming tonight.

Pictures from top to bottom...

• Greg C in PreK center
• Ryan C & Jimmy in the band & Jared drinking his third free smoothie in background
• Seacost signage

 

Multi-site Exposed Main Session #2

Mark Batterson

- We are called to play offense. The gates of hell are defense and Jesus said, "they will not prevail."

Let God be as original with others as He was with you. - Oswald Chambers

- I'm not here to prescribe but to describe what God is dong at National.

- Seeing God change lives is why we do what we do.

1 One day Jonathan said to his armor bearer, “Come on, let’s go over to where the Philistines have their outpost...” 2 Meanwhile, Saul and his 600 men were camped on the outskirts of Gibeah, around the pomegranate tree at Migron... 4 To reach the Philistine outpost, Jonathan had to go down between two rocky cliffs that were called Bozez and Seneh. 5 The cliff on the north was in front of Micmash, and the one on the south was in front of Geba. 6 “Let’s go across to the outpost of those pagans,” Jonathan said to his armor bearer. “Perhaps the Lord will help us, for nothing can hinder the Lord. He can win a battle whether he has many warriors or only a few!”  7 “Do what you think is best,” the armor bearer replied. “I’m with you completely, whatever you decide.” 1 Samuel 14:1-7

We can't have a "better safe than sorry" attitude when it comes to faith.

• Jonathan and his armor bearer... Jonathan says in vs 7 let's go and perhaps the Lord will be with us. Here is a guy that wasn't playing not to loose.
• Jonathan's plan was difficult and daring. We need the spirit of Jonathan.
• Jonathan screamed charge when he should have screamed retreat.
• Most church leaders operate with a reverse mindset. Let's stay put...we don't need more resources we need more guts.
• The will of God is not an insurance plan it is a daring plan.
• What can keep you at the bottom of the cliff?
• If you think you don't have enough leaders. God fills vacuums. Eph. 1:23

Saul is a contrast. He is sitting under trees. He should have been fighting back instead of kicking back.

• Church is not a spectator sport. Multi-site is a reminder of that.
• The people's prayer, God do you want me to serve there or serve more here?
• Create a survey culture. Survey and see if you can find some Jonathans.
• Why would we launch multi-site is the wrong question. Why would we not launch is the right question.
• Anything less than multiplication is laziness and bad stewardship.
• What is the next step? Pray, educate and survey.

Not everybody can be a Jonathan but everybody can be a armor bearer. Our churches are full of armor bearers that will step up if Jonathans lead.

What God given dream is unfinished? What fear keeps you at the bottom of the cliff?

Multi-site Exposed Conference

Imagine a group of people with the same Lord, vision and Pastor meeting in various locations.  Imagine different new campus across WNC all wired with Mud Creek’s DNA.  Imagine instead of spending millions to build new building these people used existing structures not used on Sundays to accomplish great things for God. 

I’m going to attend a conference this week that could turn imagination into vision.  It is the Multi-site Exposed Conference at Seacoast Church.  Me, Jared, Jimmy, Ryan and Greg Corn are going to be challenged over the next couple of days with some innovative ideas, pray for us. 

I found some notes taken from a webinar featuring Greg Surratt and Mark Batterson.  Read over these notes Download multisite_church_revolution.mht to get a context of what this conference is about.  I will also be posting and twittering through for your reading pleasure. 

Pray for Ryan Cumbo our media guy.  If he is away from his Mac and out of the Mud Creek media room all day, its rumored that if he is exposed to the sun for more than 86 seconds he starts to look like the PC guy on the Apple commercial.