Keith Bower

Be Like the Internet, Part 2: Peripheral Simplicity Powered by Hub Complexity

This is REALLY important, so please indulge me and read carefully...

Illustration #1 -- Typepad: "Did you create your website, or did someone do it for you?" I hear this question constantly, and the answer is, "I did it." (Bear with me. This is HUGELY important to church planting.) But how did I do it? I am anything but tech savvy, so how did I create my website? The answer: Typepad, a hosted blogging platform that makes designing and maintaining this website/blog unbelievably easy. Yes, I designed my site, but I used Typepad's online tools to do it. Nothing to download. No software to buy. No training needed. And it's cheap. All this power and convenience is hosted on the Typepad server, which I can access from any computer with Internet access. Peripheral simplicity powered by hub complexity. Beautiful!

Be the Hub: An Exciting Role for an Existing Church

Q: How can my existing church be part of a missional church planting movement?

A: Your church can BE THE HUB of a church planting movement in your area.

A church planting movement is all about rapid multiplication as simple churches reproduce simple churches. A HUB CHURCH supports rapid multiplication by allowing the planted churches to stay simple.

Our 4-Stage Strategy: A New Approach

Most church plants launch with a worship service. But...
What if a church launched with Community Service?

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Why isn't there a "Megabucks" in your Community?

Many communities (including mine) seem to have a Starbucks on almost every corner.

Question: Why, instead of multiple locations, doesn't Starbucks just build one huge thousand-seat MEGAbucks in your community? What does Starbucks know that we don't know?