things I’ve discovered from audience response system polling
All healthy churches have one thing in common. They are able to hold in tension a spectrum of seemingly spiritual opposites without the exclusion or condemnation of one over another. Unhealthy churches do not manage these tensions and criticize those who do. Some of the most common tensions are:
Anyone who knows me or has been hanging around Bridgewood for any length of time has probably heard my mantra “No Bible, No Breakfast!” I’m a big advocate of early rising and putting first things first in my life. The early rising part comes easy for me, because that is how I am wired. But the …
An interactive poll using our audience response system taken during my recent Sunday message “Overcoming the Fear of Lack” revealed serious fallout in our congregation from the current economic downturn. Polling over 230 adults in both services we discovered that 42% had experienced an income reduction, 10.8% had lost jobs and an additional 9% were in …
