MINISTERING TO MILLENNIALS
July 28, 2021 2023-04-05 19:13MINISTERING TO MILLENNIALS
MINISTERING TO MILLENNIALS
MINISTERING TO MILLENNIALS
Now that we understand the basic concepts of how the millennial mind thinks about, we now go deeper into their priorities and how they handle day to day events.
Going digital is a must for almost all millennials. Churches have often made this their first step in appealing to Millennials, but they do it for the wrong reason. Going digital isn’t about relevance; it’s about accessibility. It would have been absurd in the 20th century to avoid the telephone as a means of communication and organization, yet many churches struggle sometimes to understand that the same thing can be said of the Internet in the 21st century.
My advice for churches looking to figure out the digital world is simple and threefold. First, make yourself easy to find. A good church website is a basic requirement now, as is some basic social media presence. Please, don’t feel like you need to do every app that gets popular. Invest in the basic ones — Facebook and Twitter, for example.
Second, make sure your church is easy to understand. Your Internet presence is often the first interaction you have with a Millennial. Make things like dress code, location, where to park, worship style, where classes meet, timing, and even important, beliefs, clear. Ask yourself, if you went to your church’s website as a visitor, what would you look for?
Third, make engaging with the church easier for Millennials through digital organization and communication. Find out how giving, event organizing, planning, and communication can be done on the smartphone or web browser — it’s not as hard as you think. Millennials rely on the digital world as their social infrastructure. Don’t ignore it.
You don’t need to change everything about who you are as a congregation to minister to Millennials.
Also, do consider the worship style question. When your worship style changes in a thinly-veiled attempt to lure Millennials into your congregation with guitars and smoke machines, Millennials can smell the inauthenticity from miles away. You don’t need to change everything about who you are as a congregation to minister to Millennials. To continue with the worship style example, be true to your identity. If you’re good at hand bells, chamber music, organs, or even acoustic guitar, do what you do best and do it well. Do what you do with joy, authenticity, and sincerity, and most Millennials will love what you’re doing.
There’s no one-size- fits all for ministering to Millennials in worship; instead, find what’s authentic and engaging for your church — and do that well with all the participation you can muster.
But in doing your thing well, don’t make excellence the top priority. Instead of making perfection the highest priority, try making participation central to your worship planning. In all the worship services I have led, the best ones for Millennials have been the ones with the most participation by most people in the congregation. Use their gifts, talents, and passions in worship — their art, music, voices, etc. There’s no one-size- fits all for ministering to Millennials in worship; instead, find what’s authentic and engaging for your church — and do that well with all the participation you can muster.
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