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https://churchanswers.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Growth-progress-and-potential.png1200628The multisite strategy is ingrained in the American church culture. While the majority of churches will never use a multisite strategy, they are no longer perceived as aberrations and outliers. But something has been taking place steadily that engenders few, if any, conversations. Before we look at that “one thing,” let me clarify my understanding of multisite churches. I include the classic definition of a church meeting in more than one physical location. But my definition makes room for “multi-venue” (meeting in more than one place on the same campus). A multi-venue church might have one service meeting in the worship center while another service meets in another place on the same campus. A multi-venue church could also have a service on the same campus on a different day of the week. I have not yet included multi-services in my definition of multisite. Still, these additional services on the same site in consecutive time slots do indeed have most of the characteristics of a multisite church. To avoid confusion, for now, I will exclude the multi-service church in my definition. Back to my original thesis. What is the one thing we don’t hear about multisite churches? It is obvious, but its implications are hardly ever mentioned.