9 Why the System Can’t Scale (and Was Never Supposed To)
Jesus designed an Ecosystem capable of massive, exponential, organic growth.
How do we know?
Because it happened:
- 120 ➞ 3,000 ➞ 20,000 in what could be counted in months, not decades
- without buildings
- without programs
- without clergy
- without ritual
- without budgets
- without technology
- without marketing
Why Did His Ecosystem Scale?
Because:
- daily life scales
- love scales: “This is HOW all men will know you have My Life, Heaven’s Life together, because of the love they see you have for one another.”
- priesthood and gifts (rather than titles or jobs) scale
- authenticity scales
- wisdom from Heaven on our lips scales
- Spirit-led relationships scale
- transformation scales
- organic replication by example and osmosis scales
Why Can the System Not Scale Without Collapsing?
Because it depends on:
- paid professionals
- buildings
- scheduled meetings
- passive spectators
- clever, practiced choreography
- controlled environments
- managed experiences
- predictable outcomes
- centralized leadership
Scale that, and you get:
- burnout
- entertainment addiction
- shallow disciples, or even fake disciples
- consumer cultural Christianity
- endless religiously cloaked fundraising
- performance pressure
- moral failures
- political games
- emotional fatigue
The System collapses under its own weight.
But the Ecosystem grows like a forest. All its forms of life, from the smallest microbiome to the largest, most courageous animal, grow and adapt and create and procreate. Not through machinery or organization, but through organic life.
Jesus designed the Kingdom to scale through people, not programs.
Through priests, not performers.
Through daily relationships, not weekly rituals.
Scale the Ecosystem, and you get multiplication and unique, ever-changing Life. You can literally watch something, anything alive “reinvent itself” to its updated opportunity in life.
Scale the System, and you maybe get megachurches if there’s enough talent and money—massive structures with fragile souls, filled with hidden untouchable sin (leaven) and the resulting diminishing of even the good-hearted, as “a LITTLE leaven leavens the whole batch.”