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This week I wrote a story about one really BIG church and one small church. It is interesting because it is not time that makes one congregation grow more rapidly than the others...The larger one is a much younger congregation. It seems to be a mentality shift. Not that one mentality is superior to the other, but even the way things are talked about is worlds different.
I think someone could spend hours studying this subject, tossing it about and traveling across the country interviewing church members and staff - deliberating over the factors: marketing techniques, gregarious personalities, a wide age-range, right place right time, the work of the holy spirit in a congregation... sheesh, the thoughts are endless
Stories are piling up and will soon be available on the web!
I think someone could spend hours studying this subject, tossing it about and traveling across the country interviewing church members and staff - deliberating over the factors: marketing techniques, gregarious personalities, a wide age-range, right place right time, the work of the holy spirit in a congregation... sheesh, the thoughts are endless
Stories are piling up and will soon be available on the web!
posted by hannah at
2:35 PM
1 Comments:
Oh, so true . . . I grew up in small churches -- both Mennonite and BIC -- and there is just a small-church mentality that is inherent to them. It's the kind of thing that you either love or you hate.
And then there are people like me, who, if they had a churchy mentality at all, they would be small-church people. But as it is, they feel a little frustrated in the pew -- even though they love their church family -- because it seems strange and counterproductive to our faith that we should have a churchy mentality at all. . . . Now thoughts like that are what attract and create congregations like The Landing Place, The Meeting House, and Circle of Hope -- very unique BIC congregations that are following Jesus, but not religion.
Okay, enough of my strange tangents! :)
Good post.
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Dulcimer, at 9:32 AM
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