Results of Poll:
What do you believe is the greatest hinderance to growth facing the Australian Church of the Nazarene?
Top Five Answers (voters could vote for more than one issue):
1) No clear Vision for the future (73%) 11 votes
2) Apathy and Other Reasons (both 60%) 9 Votes each
3) Stuck in the Past (53%) 8 Votes
4) Ageing Congregation (40%) 6 votes
5)Lack of Pastors (24%) 4 Votes
Any thoughts or opinions on these results?
(See full results below)
Lack of Pastors
4 (26%)
Lack of Lay Leaders
3 (20%)
Lack of Good Holiness Preaching
2 (13%)
Ageing Congregations
6 (40%)
Not Enough Hymns Being Sung
0 (0%)
No clear Vision for the Future
11 (73%)
Nothing, we are doing fine
0 (0%)
Nobody Cares about Holiness anymore
2 (13%)
The Emerging Church
1 (6%)
New Contemporary Worship Music and it's Influence
3 (20%)
I am Not Sure
0 (0%)
Stuck in the Past
8 (53%)
I Don't Care
0 (0%)
Apathy
9 (60%)
Other Reasons not listed
9 (60%)
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I;m really interested that 'Vision' or rather a lack of it was seen as the main reason for our church decline.
ReplyDeleteI can only speak personally, but for me vision works on 3 levels; personal, church and district.
My personal vision is really my own responsibility and involves my family and my own journey of faith.
My church vision is one that I am especially passionate about since coming to Croydon Park. This is a vision that has come about through many discussions with Ps. Lydia and Ps. Raphael and our church board. It is still being discussed and I imagine always will be.
The district vision I don't have that much to do with. I currently sit on the SDMI board but I'm not really involved in any of the bigger decisions of our church on a district level.
If people believe that there is a lack of vision I wonder what they are doing to create one? Personally - there really is no one else who can do this for us. In terms of a church vision - if I didn't have a vision for the church I was in, then I'd probably be looking to move on. And as for the District, I guess that one is up for grabs at the moment.
Perhaps its more a case of COMMUNICATING the vision that people/churches/districts have?