B1 — Your Program Is a Factory

Module B1 · theme: blueprint

Look back first. Did you complete the personal path — a living habit, and one group facilitated? A leader who hasn’t fed themselves can’t lead this. If someone’s behind, name it gently; don’t move past it.

Here’s the reframe that runs the whole course:

A program produces what it’s built to reward. Most programs reward knowing.

So ask, honestly: what does ours reward? Let it sting a little.

The pipeline — the map for everything after. Two axes:

• A competency ladder: taste → habit → reader → facilitator → coach.
• Across life stages: children · youth · adults · family.

Find where most of your members actually sit. In most churches it’s stuck at attend / know — the bottom rung, adults only.

The scoreboard — five measures that replace attendance. Keep this wording; it recurs all course:

1. Members with a living personal habit.
2. Members who shared this month / are reading with a not-yet-believer.
3. Classes running in discovery format.
4. Members facilitating.
5. Facilitators who raised another facilitator.

Ask: which of these could we actually count next month?

I used to measure my education ministry by attendance and completed workbooks. The turn: measure feeding and sending, not gathering and knowing.

Read 2 Timothy 2:2 aloud, twice. Four generations in one verse — the real scoreboard is generations, not graduates.

Practice — the program audit: map every class and age group → its current mode (teaching or discovery) → the highest rung it currently produces. On butcher paper with your team. The gaps on the page are your rollout plan.

Your “I will”: finish the audit and draft your five scoreboard numbers, by [date].

Close in prayer for honest eyes on your own program.