This talk is entitled "Small Explosions"
The combusiton engine: Metaphor picture in how to build momentum
Combustion engine: Series of small, well-timed explosions
The explosion is contained and well timed. There's structure to the explosion
Not just free form with no context or structure.
You can have a lot of attention but no movement. No momentum after the initial explosion.
The key is being able to look for short term goals and evaluate the results. Short term goals to move forward with.
Terry's team develops web applications (YouVersion)
We sit down on Tuesdays and identify what we're going to do in the next week. That's it. We know what's important and what needs to get done.
We need to measure what we're going to effectively do.
We operate in one-week iterations.
We have altitude meetings–only thinking what is 2-4 weeks out maximum.
LifeChurch is a multi-site church. When we thinking of launching a new campus, we only allow ourselves a small amount of time to plan.
Reason: We lose a lot of momentum if planning goes too long.
Campus launch - 3 months development time. (Sidenote: WOW!)
We move towards that launch to create momentum.
(Giving examples of momentum from OnePrayer)
(Went from 4 churches to literally thousands)
(All because of controlled momentum)
The constraint of planning period around One Prayer allowed an insane amount of momentum to build.
Too much planning didn't allow for the same amount of momentum to build.
BG talking about how Farm Aid was planned in six weeks. Result? Largest single concert in human history.
Q: How do you prevent burn out in an environment where your team is always sprinting?
A: We build into our culture a fun environment. Everyone on our team is passionate about what they do. We create a fun, exciting environment where people love to come to work.
A: We celebrate what is happening.
A: We have regular outings as a team where we're serving others.
A: At the end of the day it takes a certain person who can function at that level.
Continue to do more of what's working and less of what's not.
What are the things that we're doing that have become less effective? Let's do less of that. The result is a team who is motivated about what they're doing.
Q from Audience: What is biblical basis for what you're doing?
A from BG: We're ignorant people when it comes to running a church, etc. We've simply tried to ask the question "What do we see God doing? Where is he moving?" We respond to where we see God moving.
BG: There are times where we have a clear sense that we're manufacturing energy and God's not pushing it forward.
BG: Too often, people write five year plans and then ask God to show up.
BG: Instead, we try and see where God is already moving and then go to join him there.
LC.tv went from 1 person to 240 people on staff in 13 years.
Every LC.tv campus has a campus team with a "built in" leadership team.
Q: Any thoughts on organizations that aren't "outside of the box"?
A: There is an ability to create a "culture of change". Change is more a verb than a noun.
A: How can we bring a culture of change to the church? A changing environment where change is expected....
Look for small incremental changes where you can build change into your organization.
Small simple changes people begin to build anticipation for it ... May even get them to lean into it.
Rarely do massive changes effect the vibe or culture of an organization.
Put very tight constraints around massive organizations to enable amazing outcomes of change.
We usually know the next preaching topic that's next, sometimes we don't.
"Ready to make a change." (Seems to be the mantra of LC.tv)
BG: The mentality of large is too easy to focus on what is inside. Tend to focus inward.
BG: If you think you are large, you tend to have a protectionist mindset. "Need to protect what God is doing here."
TS: Important to "untether" departments that don't work together.
TS: Allow people to freely execute where they're going. Not having unnecessary lines of communication.
TS: The more complicated you get, the more opportunities of things to break.
*And that's a wrap!
