One Size Fits All...

... only works for trash cans.

I wish I'd thought of this, but I read it somewhere - just can't remember it where!

This is really true of churches - how often have churches tried to open their arms wide and try to do all different types of ministries - and in the process not doing well at any of them? Or, as author Will Mancini calls it, the unoriginal sin of vision cloning: adapting the latest ministry fad from some church conference, trying to duplicate the process that church is using in their own setting.

Won't work.

Don't try it.

Instead, be original. Strive to identify what God is uniquely doing in your church, in your community, in your people - and then you are on to something. Churches aren't one size fits all - they should be uniquely different!