Okay, this has nothing to do with growth or anything else but I just found it humorous.
Your Score: the Ham
(42% dark, 61% spontaneous, 31% vulgar)
your humor style:
CLEAN | SPONTANEOUS | LIGHTYour style’s goofy, innocent and feel-good. Perfect for parties and for the dads who chaperone them. You can actually get away with corny jokes, and I bet your sense of humor is a guilty pleasure for your friends. People of your type are often the most approachable and popular people in their circle. Your simple & silly good-naturedness is immediately recognizable, and it sets you apart in this sarcastic world.
PEOPLE LIKE YOU: Will Ferrell - Will Smith
The 3-Variable Funny Test!
- it rules -
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Another of my articles was published :-). The talk was called “Why Liberal Churches are Growing” but I like my title better. The characteristics apply to any congregation whether liberal or conservative. To me, this was one of the most important talks at GA.
We can learn a great deal from conservative churches. Please abandon your stereotype that they are mindless automatons who just attend and throw money at their congregation. It’s insulting and ignorant on our part.
Like any organization, they are doing something right when that many people feel that they are being ministered to effectively. Read the article.
There are a number of events that are streamed live from the General Assembly but unless people actually start watching, it will be going away. Not that I have any inside knowledge. But like anything else, if it costs money (and I am sure that it is not cheap) and people aren’t using it, it will go away.
I have to admit that this is my first GA and I have not watched any of the streaming coverage of the last five or six GAs that were covered. But since I am here in the communications room at GA, I have watched a great deal of the streaming coverage.
There are some basic questions. Do people know that the streaming coverage exists? If they do, is the material covered of interest to them?
From my own experience, I had absolutely no idea about what went on at GA. Shame on me, I missed out on a great deal over the years. But also, like a lot of UUs, I was anti-authoritarian and had some real misconceptions about the UUA. So, for better or worse, the more I could ignore them the better. UU was all about my local congregation, not the UUA.
But that’s changed now. I attended an excellent session by Terasa Cooley about the characteristics of growing congregations. One of the points was that growing congregations establish a good balance between “I”, “We” and a “Larger Vision”. I have been stuck in “I” and “We” for a long time now. But the times they are a changin’…
