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Steve:
I would like to have a clean copy of the Spirituality Types survey that you shared at the DCE conference to use with my staff. Could I get an electronic copy of that?
Also, I am not sure that you are aware that after you left the conference there was no debriefing or talking about the great Lutheran question “What does this mean?” I fear that many walked away not ever processing what it means for their ministry beyond their own edification.
As I processed it against the backdrop of my life experiences I had some thoughts that you might comment on.
First, I think that changing quadrants is not what will save the LCMS. I think that being fluent in all of the quadrants will. We are really strong on the upper right quadrant and have to learn to speak to those in the other quadrants.
As a DCE I would think that we have to make sure that we are hitting all quadrants in our corporate worship experience and then work to develop programs in concentric circles out from the center. Maybe start with a program that touches and is lead by people in each quadrant. Don’t expect people from other quadrants to participate or even “get” what is going on.
I believe it opens up the church to a phenomenon where the number of people being touched in each quadrant is greater than that of the corporate experience. So, if you worship 300 on a Sunday you would compare that to the number of people in the quadrant activities that week, assuming that each quadrant has a weekly event. The quadrants would maybe be 400 or 600 for the week.
This of course would be a brain twist for the LCMS that only knows how to count butts in pews and names on rosters. We don’t know how to consider effectiveness over attendees. We all know that sitting in church does not make one more of a Christian any more than sleeping in a garage makes you a car. Somehow we have to ask a different question when we want to know how our church is doing and how healthy it is. We have to remeber that we are an extension of the book of “Acts”, not the book of Numbers.
I have one other request. Could you also send the diagram of the quadrants to me? I don’t know if it is one of the handouts and I lost it or if it was just on the screen.
It was good to see you again and I look forward to continuing dialog. It was interesting to see how you jumped to another quadrant as a result of a crisis. I wonder if that is the catalyst that helps many jump if they ever will. I suspect a crisis will do one of three things. Help you jump to another quadrant, get deeper into your quadrant or jump off of the grid altogether.
Let me know what you think.
God Bless,
Deon
You raise some wonderful points. I am sorry that there wasn’t some de-briefing of the material and was probably too much in too short of time.
Reggie McNeal says we need to measure success by a meaningful score card. He says some of our scorecards are way out of date.
In terms of crisis, most spiritual writers over the centuries will write about struggle or crisis as a time of great deepening of faith and resultant growth. I am more and more interested in this because I believe that transitions, positive or negative, cause us to move forward in the faith dimension.
Steve