7.17.2007

Where did the middle go?

Leadership Journal has an insightful blog entry about the disappearance of the middle. It's the bell curve becoming the "well curve". At Four Corners this is as true as any other suburban church. We struggle with this immensely and it often is a mystery to handle properly. I look at the articles main points and realize we are in the middle of turbulent times both within the church and culture at large. People are either all in or simply just there...the middle ground is disappearing.

Most people who are new attendees to church are either very active or hardly active. This creates substantial problems in many areas such as 'membership', money, manpower, and overall movement of people from anonymous to connected.

How does losing the middle effect us as the church?



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Unknown said...

I think I had read somewhere the same thing about marriage. That younger people are either getting married, or not in a steady (or live in) relationship at all. To me its seems caution or fear of making a mistake, of taking any risk, is so high on our minds, that we just don't do anything outside of what we know.

Or maybe its the fact that there is a plethora of choices in every area of society -- and escalates nearly daily -- where there is no need to commitment, since there will be something we'd like far better soon enough.

Fascinating stuff.

July 17, 2007 at 9:49 PM

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