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BORDERLINESa curated discussion…EXPLORING THE FERTILE GROUND BETWEEN FAITH & BUSINESS
#leanfaith
Why a panel on #LeanFaith Which requires more faith to launch?A Faith
Community?A Startup Business?
Q. What is a curated discussion?A. a panel discussion on steroids.
Brief presentations. Submitted questions. Curator may reframe.
Submitting your questionsa few instructions
Each person take a few. As you have a question, write down, pass to center. We’ll collect them as we go. Consolidate and frame. Follow-ups are fine.
Presenters
Ken HowardFaithX
Presenter/Curator
Toby RubinUpStart
Presenter
Spencer Burke
The HatcheryPresenter
Lean,Experimental Faith CommunitiesPresentation 1by Ken Howard
Faith Communities at the Crossroads
AcceleratingChange
EscalatingUncertainty
Ch
aos
Driving forces… behind uncertainty & change
Dis-IntegrationDissatisfactionNone & DoneSpiritual Religious
MembershipAttendanceConfidence
Belief in God
GO
ING
UP
GO
ING
D
OW
N
Going Up…0
Followers
Denominations
Singularity?
Worship Centers
2.40
%1.
98%
2100
2000
1900
243K
66M
1.32%4.3B
Going Down
Members/Denom.
1900 1950 2000 2050 2100
349K
58K 18K
Members/Worship Ctr.
1900 1950 2000 2050 2100
1.4K
567
64
A Religion Singularitybut is it a...
Black Hole? Wormhole?
Chaordic Spacecreativity starts here
Order Chaos
Ch
aordic
Vision-Guided ExperimentationSeven strategies to survive the singularity
1. Minimum Viable Belief2. Getting outside the building3. Minimum Viable Program4. Rapid Iteration Prototyping5. Lean-ing from the inside out6. Leading from the outside in7. Measuring what mattersI N T E R S T E L L A R
1. Minimum Viable Belief
ProgramProcessPurposePASSION
(Reason for being)
What
How
Why
Why of
Whys
Your Community’s MVB is its…
Why of Whys. Reason for being.Transcendent single belief or principle that
drives everything else.How we want to change the world vision.Purpose that makes its people passionate.
Vision = Minimum Viable Beliefbecause vision creates culture
a lean, transcendent vision can create a
flexible, durable, self-guiding culture that outlasts its founder
2. Getting outside the buildingTesting hypotheses about
No facts exist inside the building,only opinions.
– Steve Blank
OutsideContext
InsideContext
Getting outside the buildingOuter
ContextInner
ContextDemo-graphic
sStrengths
Needs
Getting Outside the Building Getting to “why”
Program: Ministries
Process: Organizing
Purpose: Reason(s)
WhatHow
Why
3. Minimum Viable Program…or ministry
4. Rapid Iteration PrototypingRIP: because it’s okay to let bad ideas die
APPLYseasonal
experimentASSESS
our assumptions
MVBvisio
n
ADAPTprogram/product
Toss?
Tweak?
5. Lean-ing from the inside outbusiness startups could learn from this
Gifts & SkillsMatch
positions to people
TimeReduce
permissions
EffortPrevent
perfectionism
6. Leading from the outside in Extrapreneurial leadership
Synergism NetworkingCentered
Set
7. Measuring What Mattersbeyond butts in the pews
From Attendance To Engagement
Measuring what mattersEngagement: beyond butts in the pews
Relationship to the Congregation
SeekerGuest
InquirerRegular
EngagedMember
Leader
Leve
l of E
ngag
emen
t
Lean in the Jewish spacePresentation 2by Toby Rubin
Being Jewishmore about culture & ancestry than religion
Source: Pew Research Center 2013 Survey of U.S. Jews.
How might we
bring Jewish wisdom to life in a way that inspires
contemporary American Jews and others
to choose to benefit from the rich tradition that is today’s Judaism?
Innovation as necessity
Product-Market Fit
Customer
Programs
Hatching CommunitiesPresentation 3 by Spencer Burke
What the church can learn from the music industry?
Church Music Industry
What can the church can learn from the music industry?
Confessions of a religion executive
The need for religion Pirates-Heretics
The shift from teaching-centric churches
to service-centric churches
MP3.com versus iTuneswhy movements need infrastructure
iTunes for the Church?
Questions…and currated discussion
Ken [email protected] faithx.net
Toby [email protected] upstartbayarea.org
Spencer [email protected] hatcheryla.com
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