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Monday, February 28, 2011

De-Frag Your Congregation

From Burton Dasset at cyber-coenobites
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Worship not warming up so quickly in the mornings? General sense of apathy? Nasty grinding noises at the congregational meetings? Things over-heating? Maybe things are getting a bit fragged-up. It's time to De-frag your Congregation™ .


This is a newly-formatted congregation. The loyal worshippers are up the front to hear the preacher, packed in closely to show their spiritual unity.


As members join and leave, the congregation becomes more fragmented. Empty seats start to appear, where worshippers used to sit but no longer do.


Some "bad sectors" can form, while other types of worshipper can appear and start to interfere with the smooth operation of your congregation. Things are becoming increasingly fragmented.The performance of the worship group starts to degrade.


 
This is when you need to De-frag your Congregation™. De-frag your Congregation™ goes through the fellowship, re-arranging it into a more efficient format. The Bad Sectors are grouped out of the way (ideally making the coffee), where they can't do any more harm . Worship is once again efficient - and you'll be glad you used De-frag your Congregation™


1 comment:

Daniel said...

Ha! I love it. Get the 'bad sectors' to making coffee. What happened to the 'liberals' and 'charismatics'? The liberals sit in the back and the charismatics in the front!