{"id":337,"date":"2014-11-06T01:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T06:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/?p=337"},"modified":"2026-04-01T16:21:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:21:40","slug":"is-it-scalable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/withskillfulhands.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/06\/is-it-scalable\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It Scalable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the many mistakes I&#8217;ve made as a leader is implementing something at New Day that&#8217;s not scalable. For example, when we first started I chose a website that couldn&#8217;t grow with us as the church grew. This resulted in a lot of wasted time because once we grew and I needed more features than the current website could offer, I had to rebuild our site from scratch with a new company. After this happened two or three times, I realized, the hard way, that I don&#8217;t want to use anything that&#8217;s not scalable &#8211; anything can&#8217;t grow with us as we grow. We are now using a company called Site Organic. I chose them because they have a great basic package you can use to start, and then you can add on features as needed without moving to a new company and rebuilding your site from scratch. In other words, the site can grow with us as we grow &#8211; it&#8217;s scalable.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a handful of ways I try my best to live by &#8220;Is it scalable?&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When staff present a new idea to me, one of the first things I ask myself (and the staff member) is this: Is it scalable? If it&#8217;s not then the answer is no, or we modify the original idea until it is scalable.<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t personally do all the pastoral care. That&#8217;s not scalable. At a certain point I won&#8217;t be able to keep up with it unless I only want the church to be about a hundred people. A different system is required if the church is to grow beyond a hundred people. We&#8217;ve chosen a model that&#8217;s scalable &#8211; one that works at 50, 500 or 5,000.<\/li>\n<li>When we were less than a hundred people someone\u00a0once asked me if I could give them a shoutout during the service because they were celebrating a certain number of years of marraige. I said no because that&#8217;s not scalable. If I set that standard then as we grew I&#8217;d be spending the whole service just giving people shout outs, instead of preaching the Word like I should.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I could give many more examples but hopefully by now you get my point. If it ain&#8217;t scalable, we don&#8217;t do it! I would encourage you to take a look at what you&#8217;re doing and ask, as I have, &#8220;Is it scalable?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the many mistakes I&#8217;ve made as a leader is implementing something at New Day that&#8217;s not scalable. For example, when we first started I chose a website that couldn&#8217;t grow with us as the church grew. 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