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Basically, from my area info, there was/is an ongoing rift in the larger denomination related to the Acronym issues. World wide, the scism is huge, again related to the social changes. But it is really most of the oldline protestant denominations that have suffered due to changing community views and fewer churched families. The concept of families attending church together has fallen away, partly due to the societal changes, but frankly also due to many families having struggles just to keep themselves going, and the Church often did not respond well. Still, spirituality is often apparently seen as personal, and the dictates of old line denominations that could not respond affected responses. Somehow our congregations continue to serve the community and while now very small, are functioning and adjusting. But the community resouce the church is makes it a survivor. We are not likely to ever see the pattern of the last century. -
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By InquisitiveScouter · Posted
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The Methodist thing hit hard here; but it was odd. We had a lot of Methodist units, but a lot of the unit membership was not Methodist. So when the Methodist thing with the charters disrupted scouting, we lost a lot of units in my area, but the scouts were not Methodist so it never made much sense on why other non Methodist chartered units didn't pick those scouts back up? Was the Methodist church paying a lot of membership dues like the LDS was? I use to live next to a Methodist church and they were HUGE, I mean, at least 1000 active churchgoing members. They are tiny now, they had to sell their church and downsize to an old smaller church on the other side of town. I spoke with the pastor and she said they have like 100 parishioners left. It happened almost suddenly, I want to say that within a decade they went from being the largest Christian congregation in my area to the smallest and no one has a single idea why, nothing bad has ever been said about the pastor or church board. It's weird. The lack of commissioners is bad. I think my district is down to 3, the district committee is doing this at risk thing as well. The problem is no real solid definition of an at risk unit. I went to a roundtable (might have been a scouting u class) about these new metrics and the council commissioner was adamant that these metrics are not for evaluating a unit, they are for "finding discussion topics". Are we experiencing our scouting version of purple math don't test the kids moment?
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