Affirming Our Commitment to Multiply

We will visibly and regularly cast vision for our members to go and be part of teams that are planting autonomous churches.*
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We will participate with other churches in a church planting network or affiliation (or denominational initiative) that is actively pursuing increased multiplication.*
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We will embrace and value planting autonomous churches with at least the same importance and urgency as we pursue local church growth.*
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We will include planting autonomous churches as a key shaping factor and lens when making key church decisions that impact the future (e.g. decisions affecting staffing, facilities, budget, programs, etc.).*
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We will participate in at least one autonomous church plant per year.*
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We will seek to have church planting and multiplication be part of our core DNA and values.*
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We will include planting autonomous churches on our primary performance scorecard.*
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We will be involved in planting autonomous churches far more than just giving financially. We will seek to be directly involved in things like recruiting, assessing, training, and coaching church planters, providing support services, connecting and affiliating with other churches who are committed to church multiplication, staying connected with the latest trends and approaches, etc.*
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We will see each member as a potential church planter (or church planting team member) and seek to encourage specific people to get involved in planting autonomous churches.*
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We will have a specific strategy and plan for increasing our church planting activity. We will hold ourselves accountable to the plan.*
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We will be more aggressive in planting autonomous churches than we are in starting new campuses/multisites.*
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We will plant autonomous churches as a priority over assuming debt for land and buildings, even if we don't yet have a permanent facility.*
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We will seek to be as aggressive in sending leaders to start new churches as we are in accumulating our own staff members locally. We will encourage our best leaders to go and be part of autonomous church plants.*
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We will have a church planting intern/resident program for training and preparing leaders to plant autonomous churches.*
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We will seek to continuously have church planting interns/residents in training who are being equipped and sent to launch new autonomous churches.*
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We will prioritize funding of planting new autonomous churches above taking on our own mortgage debt.*
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We will invest at least 10% of the first fruits of our budget into planting autonomous churches each year.*
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We will invest at least 10% of the first fruits of any capital fundraising campaigns into planting autonomous churches.*
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We will implement simple strategies and a strong sending culture that is characterized by spontaneous multiplication from within the church (i.e. lay leaders mobilized into multiplication without reliance on church staff or programs).*
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We will publicly and regularly encourage our members to give sacrificially above and beyond their tithe to the local church to support specific church plants.*
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