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Choices Within the Journey
What are strategic change and transition issues to address?
This choice involves risking losing, over a period of time, the support and participation of people who drive into the congregational location from the suburbs as they:
- Connect with a congregation closer to their residence.
- Drop out of regular or irregular church attendance.
- Leave when the worship, programs, ministries, and activities of their congregation no longer speak to their needs.
- Leave when the needs of their children, and even the urging of their children, motivates them to seek out a congregation with friends who are culturally closer to the culture of their children under 18 years old.
This is similar to the multiple communities congregation except:
- This choice does not intentionally seek to maintain worship, programs, ministries, and activities for people who reside farther away than three miles.
- Thus, it is appealing to a Christian missionary stance that should be taken by people who live farther away than three miles to lower their personal desires in favor of who comprises the current context around the congregation.
Other choices:
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