Luther Seminary in Minnesota, USA is running a Lily-Endowment funded Vibrant Congregations Project. Someone has identified six critical areas of vibrant congregational life and culture (no, not ten or five - six...). Congregations with these attributes will be studied.
The magic six are (drum roll...) - stewardship; vocation; Biblical fluency; children, youth & family; missional leadership; and Biblical preaching...
I'm not sure what some of these mean (esp 'fluency'), so it will be interesting to see what unfolds with the Project. Hopefully its not just the 1980s coming back, although, let's face it, we do like those big synth sounds and electronic drums...
The big question of course is what kind of thing they're hoping to learn. Is it about what they do, why they do what they do, what processes led to the latter, what enabled those processes to take place, and what they say about the 'identity' of the congregation....??
The Project blog is here.
So many questions....
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