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GOVERNANCE & MINISTRY
by Dan Hotchkiss
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Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash The most lasting legacy of the Covid epidemic may not be the new ways people can show up, important as those are. The most lasting legacy may be new ways of thinking about when and whether to show up. For congregations, the era of attracting people by low expectations may have come to a belated end. Most congregations long ago abandoned strict attendance rules. But we still judge our success by standards set in earlier eras. In many churches, a member must show up in person at least twice a month to be considered “active.” For Jews, the comparable standard might be showing up once or twice a year for the high holidays—and getting 100% of their children to show up for a bar or bat mitzvah. Covid broke the habit of attendance for a lot of congregants. Some will come back, but many have
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