One last post on the connection between What would Google Do? and the church:
Jarvis coins the following term: free is a business model. He writes that it is impossible to compete against. The most efficient marketplace is a free marketplace. Money gets in the way (76-77). The user doesn't pay anything to use Google, but gets all of the value. Recently, we made a decision to make it easier (read much cheaper) for groups outside of Hillcrest to use our Family Life Center. Doing this certainly demonstrates a love for our community, but it also adds value to the community.
Jarvis also writes that cash flow can blind you to the strategic necessity of change, tough decisions, and innovation (110). At a recent Hillcrest 101, we retold the Hillcrest story including the extremely difficult decisions we made to stop doing certain things including Sunday School, AWANA, Sunday Night Service, and even the block party. All were at one time an incredible and fundamental part of who we were as a church, but all needed to be let go of in order to make the ongoing transition to who we are now as a church. What might we need to let go of this year? next year? the next 5 years in order to continue to be the church that God wants us to be?
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