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25 Questions for people who want to make churches grow

30/05/2015
1. Do you have a decent church website?
2. Is it up to date?
3. Is it responsive – ie does it work on mobile phones?
4. Does your own online profile feature your ideas and hopes and dreams other than a desire for people to turn up to church?
5. Do you know what you are doing with twitter and facebook?
6. Who could you learn more about social media from?
7. Do you have a compelling reason why people should come to your church other than where it is or what denomination it belongs to?
8. Can everyone in the church tell you in one sentence what that compelling reason is?
9. What is your beginners’ course like?
10. What comes after the beginners’ course?
11. Do people like the preaching?
12. Do people enjoy the music?
13. Have you dealt with conflicts from the past?
14. Are the people friendly?
15. Do you have any new groups starting soon?
16. Do you talk about making the world a better place?
17. How will people experience joy if they come to your congregation?
18. If someone from your past turned up unexpectedly at worship how would it make you feel?
19. How do you identify newcomers and what do you offer them?
20. What problems will arise if you do grow and how will you deal with them?
21. Do claims that you welcome everyone stop you working at welcoming those who traditionally find it hard to find a home in church?
22. Do you use language that is inclusive of everyone?
23. How do you know?
24. Is there any identifiable group of people that you can’t explicitly say are welcome because of how an individual or group in the congregation will react?
25. Do you want to grow or not?
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5 responses to “Five Thoughts On Losing Elections (and a referendum)”

Meg Rosenfeld

31/01/2020

Thank you; this was a good and helpful piece to read on a day when, in all likelihood, those of us in the USA who have been endeavoring to restore justice and truth to our Presidency are going to be informed that we’ve failed.

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Helen Dean

31/01/2020

Great message. We also need people who are prepared to lose for the right reasons even if they never win.

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Jackie Heatlie

31/01/2020

Truly, huge common sense in this. Never let go of ‘Radical Hope’!

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Marie Craig

01/02/2020

I second that!

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Rosemary Hannah

01/02/2020

Yes but. The rain, it raineth every day/upon the just and unjust fella/ but it raineth more upon the just/for the unjust hath the just’s umbrella. It is hugely much easier to win if you feel free to say what you know to be
popular. If you feel free to discount the complex for the always simple. I know this because over the years I have tried to explain, variously, that a nation’s economy does not work in the exact same way as a household budget, and that trade agreements between countries are not as simple as selling goods at a church sale of work. Or, to put it another way, the huge medical success of the last fifty (plus) years has been vaccination. A short discomfort, a huge level of success. That has not prevented the anti vaccine lobby having huge success in persuading people that an exceptionally safe procedure is seriously dangerous. And at least some of the pro vaccine propaganda has been slick and professional (witness the latest row on TicTok)

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