revchadbrooks.bsky.social
Congregational Vitality with UMC in Louisiana.
🎙10 years stewarding #ProductivePastor.
Obsessive about the devotional life, sociology, and biblical theology in the Wesleyan way.
I write weekly | https://bit.ly/heychadbrooks
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Church health can be measured in what I call "the vitality index" and it's how I operate here in Louisiana.
• Unstable
• Stable
• Vital
• Sustainable.
Read more -> bit.ly/40hTSZh
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Liz - I'm in Central Louisiana and work with the United Methodists. I'd love to chat if you are open to it.
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downloaded and cue'd up to read this week!
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Hand raise!
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I think the first finger we ever need to point is towards ourselves. I love being UMC, have my issues with it, but want to direct more energy towards what it means to be a theological wesleyan/methodist than dunking on those I don't agree with.
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Two solid titles.
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I work from home, and the line between fun and work gets kinda fuzzy sometimes. I'm in the process of creating a second space that never touches work for reading/writing.
AND a healthy dose of jiu jitsu does wonders for my soul as well!!!
Gotta have separation.
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I like your odds.
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When I was a kid, my Dad would watch it every week. I grew up in one of those few 1000+ churches in the 1980's and Dad (the pastor) was always taking notes.
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Can't wait to read it!
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Yep. I'm going to need to pre-order this. Right up my alley!
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I've been going through the classics. Faulkner, Hemingway, O'Connor and Kerouac.
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I've been reading 20th Century American fiction and poetry over the last year. It has opened a new side of my mind. I love it.
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What's dangerous is when a church has declined to instability, but hopes an iPhone on a stand will change things, and neglect evangelism and discipleship along with hard conversations about change.
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I'm glad your conference gave a framework. I'm getting to do one for the first time this year. I'm not worried about when churches realize online is primarily for the population you mentioned.
It also sounds like y'all have the resources and strategy to do it well.
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Oh. I've seen many different versions of that stat.
And ones with significantly worse reporting.
One of the issues with my UMC experience is most weren't live-streaming till 2020. The GCFA added a data point for online worship attendance, but no standard for how to estimate it was given.
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#UMC congregational developer here. I work for one of the annual conferences.
The weird way we talk about/handle online worship reporting drives me all the way up the wall. I always bum folks out when I say they shouldn't be putting near the attention to online worship.
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I love finding gems like this. They warm my heart. Individual church histories and celebrations are so awesome.
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#keepitcountry
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