Simple Multiplying Movements of Faith

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Simple Multiplying Movements of Faith

• San Francisco Metro Team
• www.metamore.org

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Overview of seminar

• Welcome
• Crash Course in Innovation
• Who is the SF Metro Team?
• What are we doing?
• What results have we seen?
• Questions to full team panel

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Welcome
We hope youll get two things from this
session1. Higher value for innovation2. One
example of movements done differently
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Innovation

• Innovation is the process if improving something
  by small steps or great leaps in response to
  changes in environment or availability of new
  options.

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Innovation

• What helps to create an innovative environment?

• Encouragement to deviate from established
  practices with experimentation
• Sharp mission clarity answers Why are we doing
  this?
• A sense of fun and play
• Empowerment for staff who have personality bents
  toward creativity
• Access to outside influences books, magazines,
  team visits, guest speakers
• Informal discussions
• Group celebration of attempts, new ideas, and
  failures

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Innovation
As a team our innovative cycle looks something
like this 1. Common commitment to vision and
objectives 2. Independent work 3. Group
problem solving 4. Regular ruthless fruit
inspection 5. Brainstorming 6. Revising plans
and philosophy documents 7. Implementing
changes and experimenting on campus 8. (back to
1.)
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Who We Are
Catalytic Campus Team
Scope 450,000 students 45 campuses 60
non-white 40K international students diversity
of every kind
Variety of campuses Stanford transfer schools
to urban city colleges 8 art schools
Interest in reaching to the margins urban poor
artists ethnic minorities
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History
Before and After Fall 2003 Before Standard
catalytic plan key student, organize, build
leaders Team of 6 staff opened 16 campuses in
three years less than six decisions each year
very low quality lots of burnout November 2003
Crisis We lost 4 teammates and did an inspection
and overhaul. Then we went out for chocolate milk
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Forcing Factors for Change

• Very Busy Students desire to lead but lack
  availability
• Huge diversity
• Instability and Transience of students (18
  months on average)
• Desire for fast evangelism and discipleship
• Low benefit of having club status
• Sending desire to train students with
  transferable ministry skills
• Nothing to loose

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Rarity of Qualified Leaders

• Imagine a hypothetical campus of 10,000 students
• 4 of all incoming freshmen are Christians (400)
• 1 of 10 of those students are qualified to lead a
  traditional movement (40)
• If you plan to start with Christians, find those
  kids!
• 20 of the campus is Asian so there are only 8
  of those leaders of 10,000
• One of the keys to expanding our leadership is to
  simplify what they are asked to lead so its
  4,5,or 7 of 10 who are qualified leaders

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Rarity of Qualified Leaders
In the Bay Area Movements Everywhere demanded
beginning with simple movements.
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What Were Doing

• Simplicity
• Share Concepts (briefly)
• Look at our basic building block A Group of
  Three
• Look at how we launch movements

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Simplicity
Much of what weve done moves from a constant
attention to simplicity and tight focus on our
mission. Contrast Yahoo and Google homepages.
The secret is the algorithm but you cant see it.
Compare rio and ipod. Allows faster learning and
leadership development. Allows faster path to
effective evangelism and discipleship. Allows
viral multiplication. Allows us to raise the bar
on discipleship and lower it for leadership.
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What Were DoingImportant Concepts
Missional (adj.) - means living like youre a
sent one. Its an approach to life that
recognizes that were on a mission. That mission
becomes a basic fact we organize our lives around
and integrate into every area of life.
Organic Systems - simple, elemental, close to
nature, grassroots. Healthy and multiplying.
Following the natural pattern of things.
Sneezeable. Antonyms institutional or corporate
Incarnational versus Attractional - going to
them, not come to us not decode and create a
relevant outreach go manifest the gospel among
them
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What Were DoingImportant Concepts
Contextualization - translating the forms and
expressions of the Christian life into the
language and cultural expressions of a group of
people
Decentralization distributing critical
processes and decisions out away from the
centralized head even doing away with the
concept of head.
Social Networks Pockets of people (greeks,
athletes, Filipinos)
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Core Movement Passages

• Living out the Kingdom life can be summed up in
  the Great Commandment and the Great Commission.
  For many simple churches these passages serve as
  the core DNA.
• Divine Truth
• - Loving God
• Nurturing Relationships
• - Loving Others
• Apostolic Mission
• - Loving the Lost
• we are Sent Ones

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What characterizes us?
Organic Church CCC Core DNA Divine Truth
? Build Nurturing Relationships ? Build
Apostolic Mission ? Evangelism ? Win ? Life
Long Laborers ? Send ? Compassion Ministry
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What characterizes us?
Organic Church CCC SF Metro
? Prayer Divine Truth ? Build
? Devotion Nurturing Relationships? Build ?
Community Apostolic Mission ? Win Send ?
Missionality ? Compassion
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What is a Movement?

• Sociological Definition A segmented, cellular
  organization made up of individuals with a
  radical level of personal commitment who
  regularly engage in face to face recruitment to
  the values and ideals of the group in the face of
  real or perceived opposition.
• Gerlach and Hine (1970), People, Power,
  Change
• CCC Definition spiritual movements occur when
  God moves in and through people in a supernatural
  way to win, build and send. Steve Douglas, 2004
  Connections

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What is a Movement?

• A Holy Spirit initiated rapidly expanding
  grassroots network of students which moves them
  to a radical personal obedience to Christ, a
  constant pursuit of Kingdom mission, and a
  willingness to share in Christs sufferings as
  they aggressively oppose the established order.
• SF Metro Team

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Basic Discussion Card
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Group Details

• Short Meetings - Groups meet 60-90 minutes about
  once a week
• Same Sex - Generally same sex
• Staff Coaches - Each Facilitator is coached by a
  staffer
• Network Communication - Everyone gets the G3
  NewsFlash every 2 weeks with stories from G3s,
  student highlights, short devotionals, tools,
  news about upcoming events. And, we do G3
  Experience Survey 2 times/year.

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Group Details

• Content - G3 meeting discipleship content comes
  from sharing what they learn in church or in
  their devotional life. The groups are process
  oriented not content oriented Other content is
  delivered from devotionals we provide and from
  their churches
• Evangelism happens relationally and seekers
  are encouraged to visit and then new groups can
  be started for their friends. We use seeker
  Bible studies and CCC new believer followup.

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Campus with pockets of people
With the people of light. Salt and
Light Attractional and Extractional Create unique
Christian sub culture Organization is
complicated and reproduces slowly
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Two G3s are planted among the art students and
the greeks
The first two pop and one group goes over to meet
and serve incarnationally among the athletes
Someone sponsors a worship night at their church
(or an outreach) and invites the whole network
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Elephants and Bunnies
Heres another contrast between Institutional and
Simple Organic Approaches
Rabbit vs Elephant Movements
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Elephants and Rabbits

• RABBITS
• Practically continuously fertile.
• Average of seven babies per pregnancy.
• 1 month gestation period.
• Sexual maturity 4 months.
• 3 years 2 ? 476 million (ideal potential)

• ELEPHANTS
• Only fertile four times per year.
• Only one baby per pregnancy.
• 22 month gestation period.
• Sexual maturity 18 years.
• 3 years 2 ? 3

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God loves Elephants and Bunnies
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Multiplication

• Between 5 and 15 of G3s pop each semester.
  This has raised questions about a relationally
  poor student culture
• More multiplication happens from inspiration
• Most new groups are planted by staff or student
  leaders

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Show go small to reach them all
Plant New Micro Community
Discover Interested Students
Go Small To Reach Them All Lifecycles
Pop and Multiply
Prayerfully Adopt Student Group
Empower and Challenge G3 Members
Build Leaders Group DNA
Stimulate Movement Momentum And Group
Multiplication
Movement Coordination Team Roles Communication
Prayer Gatherings Compassion
Short Decoding Process
Educate on Discipleship Resources
Build Up the Facilitator
Prayerfully Seek Guidance
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Other Notes

• Significant online presence with MySpace and
  Facebook
• All materials are online and available for free
• It is usually a disappointing small group
  strategy because content is missing. This method
  is an out working of our DNA and critical
  concepts and is adapted to our unique scope. The
  group format easily carries and passes the DNA.
• Our experience shows that students will enjoy
  this only when they believe in the discussion
  process and are pursuing God on their own.

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Results

• Its the Water Not the Pipes

Numbers are close estimates
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Books The Forgotten Ways by Alan Hirsch The
Starfish and the Spider by Ori The Blueprint A
Revolutionary Plan to Plant Missional Communities
on Campus by Jaeson Ma Organic Church by Neil
Cole
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