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One final John Morgan story from Sagemont.  He’s a world class hunter who has hunted in 28 countries. We pastors were talking about the complexity of churches as they grow larger. He said the larger a church grows the more complex it gets - to about a thousand - then you have to restructure at that point and then it gets simple again. If you don’t change your mode of operation, you won’t survive and neither will the church. He said when he goes on a hunting expedition and someone gets off the plane with with all kinds of bells and whistels hanging off them, a dozen guns, looking like they just walked out of the L.L. Bean catalogue he knows that guy probably isn’t that much of a hunter. He said you only need 2 maybe 3 guns that take down anything in the entire world. A serious hunter travels light and keeps it simple. A man spanning the savana with binoculars to see the lion coming is too late. By the time he sees it, he then has to drop the binoculars then focus through his scope before he can shoot. That scope is the greatest set of binoculars you can have. If you see the lion with the scope, you have time to shoot. If you don’t, you’ll use your scope, you probably won’t see the lion in time, but he may see you and guess who gets who! Not bad advice for anything with reference to complexity.