Church Unique

I'm reading Church Unique by Will Mancini, which helps churches see their own unique strengths and call, and then set direction. He opens with a story that I keep coming back to as we work on plans for The Loop: A pumpkin farmer is walking through a field in the spring, when the pumpkins on the vine are the size of acorns. He sees an old glass jar lying in the field and as an experiment, he takes one of the acorn-size pumpkins and places it in the jar (still on the vine). He then forgets about his experiment until harvest time... when he finds that the pumpkin has grown to fit the jar. It hasn't broken the jar, instead it's the wrong shape and size. Mancini then goes on to talk about how too many churches are like that pumpkin in the jar, reading a book or going to a conference and then deciding to be "just like" that other church. But the question is: Is that the shape and size God has for that church?
So many people ask: "which style of church is The Loop going to be?" and when they ask they only have a handful of models in mind to choose from. I'm not too sure how they'll respond when I say: "I want us to follow the pumpkin model"!!