Be The Fruit

Are you Questioning Multi-Site?

by Bill Blair on 12/10/09 at 10:00 am

If not, then you really are not thinking according to Ed Stetzer.

Multi-site churches are quite an interesting subject to consider, but a difficult to get one’s mind around.  The main difficulty arises from the fact that there is no one model for multi-site, so it is easy to misunderstand the topic by focusing on only one particular model. The problem I have with the movement(s), is that I don’t see people thinking through the ramifications of going multi-site.  Many seem to follow the idea of doing it just because they can, but we know being able is not a good reason to do anything which leads me back to Stetzer’s comment that we simply are not thinking if we are not questioning multi-site.  In the spirit of thinking, watch the video below as Ed Stetzer and Alan Hirsch question (think about) multi-site:

A couple interesting quotes below:

Setting up movie theaters to project the graven image of rock star celebrity pastors across the United States has some long-term implications.

I have concerns if multi-site becomes the opportunity for a pastor who is not engaged in church-planting or multiplication to say, “here is another opportunity for people to see me.”

One particularly interesting point is that multi-site is not a phenomenon in post-Christian settings.  I also like Hirsch’s emphasis on the point that our most undervalued resource is the people of God themselves.

(From Out of Ur here)