Would a weekly topic verses a daily topic help to create more contructive dialogue? Instead of us who post doing a daily topic which would require daily reading, commenting etc. Would a well thought out weekly topic maybe stimulate more conversation?
Your thought's?
Seems like many conversations are along the lines of "great post!"
ReplyDeleteBishop Scott once wanted an NPN that would be a place to pair up mentors with apprentices -- experienced pastors would give direction to upcoming pastors.
The current NPN seems to be more of a bulletin board where the author-of-the-week can post whatever's on his mind.
I think if you want to get conversations going, you could:
1) Ask more open-ended questions.
For example:
- If you have room in the budget to add a 2nd staff person, should you first hire an associate pastor or an office assistant/secretary?
- If you could do it all over again, what would you do differently?
- What percentage do you budget for outreach, salaries, facilities/utilities, etc. and why?
- Is it OK to use unsaved musicians on your worship team? Why or why not? What about unsaved custodians?
- What should you do if your church is deacon-possessed?
- Which is better and why? -- a mediocre home-grown sermon or a well-polished sermon from the internet? How often do you use one or the other?
2) Solicit questions from the audience.
- add a blurb to the sidebar saying "Do you have a question you'd like us to answer? Email it to pcgnpn@gmail.com" Configure that email address to automatically route the questions to all of your site's authors.
Ken, you're a sharp guy! Those are great suggestions.
ReplyDeleteGreat post guys
ReplyDeleteSorry, couldn't resist. I like the idea of a question of the week that is open ended enough to give room for multiple ideas. I don't get to check in with NPN or Eye2Eye every day, so I spend a lot of time catching up on prior blogs. Somehow we have to make the conversation stimulating enough to get more people posting comments. Open ended questions would do that.
Great comment, Jon! (I can't resist either :-)
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