The more flexible a muscle group, the less likelihood of injury. Likewise, the more flexible a church is, the more likely it is to adapt to disciple-making opportunities. Churches need to be flexible to adapt and stretch and embrace new challenges. The characteristics that contribute to the flexibility of a church body are loving community, vision-directed systems, and divine empowerment. When the Spirit guides a church, when a faith community develops its systems and processes around vision, it becomes agile and flexible, making it able to avoid injury brought on by shortsightedness and stubbornness.