Beating a path to the pews
The Edmonton Journal published Liane Faulder’s article “Beating a path to the pews” in their Sunday Reader. We think the article raises several issues for the main line church – things she has learned through her research that we need to be paying attention to. It says that effective congregations:
1. Serve the whole family,
2. Communicate through the culture of the people they want to reach, and
3. Stress a hospitality that makes people feel they are truly welcomed and belong.
What is your take on the article and what it implies for main line congregations. We invite you to share your thoughts with a comment on our blog.
1. Serve the whole family,
2. Communicate through the culture of the people they want to reach, and
3. Stress a hospitality that makes people feel they are truly welcomed and belong.
What is your take on the article and what it implies for main line congregations. We invite you to share your thoughts with a comment on our blog.
posted by Clair Woodbury | 9:19 AM
2 Comments:
I saw that on Sunday and held it up and suggested everyone in worship read it.
The photo of the “worship in the Spirit” with hands raised etc, probably is not going to attract
Any former United Church members—ie. Those 107,000 Bibby claims still identify with UCC in Edmonton.
Personally, I doubt that many of those 107,000 are going to come back. They left for whatever
Reasons years ago and rightly or wrongly, conclude that their “membership” concept was not very deep and thus probably will return only “when they need us—weddings or funerals.”
I still believe our “niche” can be to be spiritual 0ases and spiritual greenhouses where spiritual
Seekers can experience Christian spirituality and can learn, grow and be trained.
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