Exponential: Dave Ferguson & Alan Hirsch – Breakout Session 4, “Organizing for Reproduction”

Dave Ferguson is the senior pastor of Community Christian Church & the president of the Exponential Conference.
Alan Hirsch is the co-founder of Shapevine & wrote the book, The Forgotten Ways.

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THREE SIGNIFICANT REPRODUCING ADVANCES – Dave Ferguson

1. Church Planting
   • Church Plants grow 23x faster
   • 10x the number of conversions
2. Multi-Site
   • In 1990, there were 10 Multi-Site Churches
   • in 1998, there were 100 Multi-Site Churches
   • In 2004, there were about 1500 Multi-Site Churches
   • 1 out of 4 megachurches are multi-site
   • 7 of the 10 fastest growing churches are multi-site
   • 9 of the 10 largest churches are multi-site
3. Missional/Incarnational
   • Winning is no longer seen as just larger size, but reproduction is now seen as winning.

SHIFTS TOWARD BECOMING A REPRODUCING CHURCH – Dave Ferguson

1. Making a shift from church growth to being a missional movement.
   • You value the new more than the old.
   • You value the edge more than the center.
   • You value the lost more than the found.
   • You value the going more than the staying.
2. From ministry managers to spiritual entrepreneurs.
3. Making a shift from being Reactive to Proactive
   • It’s not about 80% full
   • It’s about artist and leader readiness – with the need to reproduce, we must produce more and better leaders & artists.
4. Moving from Addition to Multiplication

CHARACTERISTICS OF A MOVEMENT – Alan Hirsch

1. There is movement.
2. There is a Structure Network
   • The is no center/authority is decentralized
   • Each component has the same DNA and is able to reproduce the whole.
   • Spider vs. Starfish
     • Just like a starfish, each aspect of a movement should be able to reproduce.