Tips from Facebook on doing church
Congregationally-relevant articles that people like you have posted on Facebook in recent weeks include the following:
• How Many Staff Do You Need, from the Ministry Matters website.
• Why Worship Shouldn’t Feel Like Family, Ministry Matters
• Why Are Fewer People in Church? It’s the Economy, Stupid, from the website Gestating a Church.
• Cabaret Church – On The VUU, a weekly webcast discussion sponsored by the Church of the Larger Fellowship, the Rev. Sean Parker Dennison explains his proposal for “Cabaret Church,” (Aug. 29 webcast) which would be centered around music, art, resistance, and community. He notes that cabarets were a response in the thirties to Fascism and they might well be useful tools today in bringing a religious perspective to contemporary culture and world politics. Cabaret Church also has its own page on Facebook and on Tumblr.
The Facebook page Growing Unitarian Universalism recommends the article “Are Your Church Facilities an Obstacle to Growth? about the ways first-time guests see your building.