Excerpts taken from Dr. Greg Linville’s address to the Atlanta SOLD meeting January 7, 2010 (First of two articles)
Will local church Sports Ministers and Church Recreators allow current trends be the sole determinant of what programs and services local church sports outreach ministries offer or will they become trendsetters? There are three avenues which can be pursued concerning trends: 1. Maximize current cultural trends for the benefit of the gospel 2. Become trendsetters and culture shapers 3. Continue to do what we’ve always done in a head long pursuit of becoming irrelevant To maximize current sporting assumes we need to know what they are: SPORTING TRENDS
OTHER RELEVENT SOCIETAL TRENDS
OVERALL CHURCH TRENDS
CHURCH TRENDS PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR LOCAL CHURCH SPORTS OUTREACH
TRENDS WITHIN LOCAL CHURCH SPORTS OUTREACH CONCERNS ABOUT THESE TRENDS WITHIN SPORTS OUTREACH
o The laity often find themselves to be a “lone voice” in a very secular setting and while they remain personally faithful, they are often not fruitful because the find themselves in such hostile situations. A certain “critical mass” is necessary for true fruit to be borne o The churches that send out their laity rarely build natural conduits or bridges from the secular leagues back to the local church |
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