I had a interesting conversation with a pastor the other day about us “taking over churches” in North Georgia and turning them into sites for Revolution. He made the comment that our multi-site vision made him excited.  He was excited because we could bring life to these dying churches by taking them over.  I’m glad he was excited, but the truth is we don’t have a multi-site vision.   He didn’t get what we are about.  We simply have a vision to reach people. If that is through multi-site, church planting, buying 100 acres and building a huge building, I don’t care. We just want to reach people.

I had a great conversation the other day with Steven Furtick and for the first time ever he summed up what I had been feeling but didn’t know how to put into words. Our vision has been the same since day one, but the thing that will continually change is the strategy. I’ll be honest, I don’t care what the strategy is. I just want to reach people far from God.

We explored every option there was for us to reach the people we feel God called us to reach. My heart beats for the people in the North Georgia mountain towns. They aren’t the biggest towns, they aren’t glamor towns, but they are growing towns with NOTHING that is reaching the next generation. God has birthed in Revolution a vision to reach thos people.

We thought about church planting. The reality is church planters aren’t knocking down the doors to go to mountain towns with less then 16,000 people. The few that we did meet, we didn’t feel had a true vision to reach those far from God. That is our heartbeat. I tell people all the time that we don’t think the way we do church is the only way to do church BUT we believe in the way we do it and when it comes to investing our resources, we will only invest in those who have the same heartbeat as us.

We thought about building. I know many GREAT churches who built great buildings and people come from all over. We explored this option. With the towns we have a heart for, we didn’t feel this would work. The towns we are launching sites in are not built around Canton. They are straight north, meaning some of the towns are 45 minutes to an hour away. Building a building in Canton isn’t going to reach those towns.

So because our vision is to reach people, we felt at this time the best strategy is multi-site. We are committed to it, we believe it is going to work, we believe it is going to change lives, we are doing it. But our vision is people, not multi-site.

Our vision will never be a strategy, it will always be people.

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