Generation Leadership > The Synagogue Marketing Debate

[Synablog] Much debate (Brooklyn Jews, Canonist, DovBear, Jewschool, Mere Rhetoric, etc.) in the Jewish blogosphere around today’s New York Times article about synagogue outreach (an article which mentions S3K). For what it’s worth ”” and it’s quite important to us ”” S3K’s statement of purpose includes the following: ”¦We seek to make synagogues compelling moral and spiritual centers - sacred communities - for the twenty-first century.

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[Synablog] Challenging synagogue attendance numbers from... : …[Rabbi Gary P.] Zola noted that what the survey highlighted was the historic problem that synagogues were “not functioning in a way that is bringing in increasing numbers of American Jews that belong to the synagogue on a regular basis.”

[Slice of Laodicea] Rick Warren Tells Jews How to Build "Compelling... : Over the course of an hour and a half, Pastor Warren discussed the challenges and strategies of building a compelling spiritual community. His advice spoke directly to the mission of S3K, and his interplay with the S3K leaders demonstrated the common issues facing both churches and synagogues in attracting new members while serving the existing community.

[Emergent What?] Rick Warren Tells Jews How to Build... : I and many others have said repeatedly that Rick Warren’s church growth stategies have no biblical basis whatsoever. If you check out the messages on this Synagogue 3000 website, you will understand afresh what an insult to the Holy Spirit…

[Synablog] Jewish Emergent!: Synagogue 3000 has identified a contemporary Jewish religious phenomenon that it is calling Jewish Emergent. This week, S3K convened for the very first time the Working Group on Emergent Sacred Communities””visionary Jewish leaders committed to the establishment of transformative sacred communities unbound by conventional expectations about what a synagogue is “supposed”

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