What’s Your Urgency Level for Connecting Unconnected People?

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What's your urgency level when it comes to connecting unconnected people? If you described your urgency level like the Homeland Security advisory system, what would your urgency level be when it comes to connecting unconnected people?

Maybe urgency level is determined by what you think is an acceptable percentage connected level?

What do you think is an acceptable percentage connected level? Is it okay that only 50% of your weekend adult attendance is connected? What if only 35% of your weekend adult attendance is connected? What if 85% of your actual adult attendance is unconnected?

What if your weekend adult attendance isn't the real number? What if you should be using your Easter or Christmas Eve attendance? What if the total number of your flock should be considered?

What's your urgency level for the unconnected people in your flock?

To determine your urgency level you need to know how to gage it. Try this understanding on for size:

Percentage Connected: If you take the number of adults who are connected and divide it by your Easter adult attendance, what number do you get? (Example: 185 divided by 1000 equals .185 or 18.5%) This is your percentage connected. Note: Many churches use the number of adults who are connected divided by average adult worship attendance. This is an inaccurate number. You must realize that your average adult worship attendance includes a different group of people every weekend. If you want to know what percentage of your congregation is connected...you need to use the real number.

Percentage Unconnected: Now take your Easter adult attendance and subtract the number of adults who are connected. Divide that number by your Easter adult attendance. This is your percentage unconnected. (Example: 1000 - 185 = 815. 815 / 1000 = .815 or 81.5%) In the example, 81.5% are unconnected!

Unconnected people are always one tough thing away from never being at your church again.Unconnected people are always one tough thing away from never being at your church again. Click To Tweet

Loss of a job. Divorce or separation. A devastating diagnosis. A child in trouble.

One tough thing.

We live in a world where one tough thing is always close by.

Unconnected people rarely call the church for help. It's much more common for unconnected people to simply stop coming.

What's your urgency level for the unconnected people in your flock? Can you afford to put off connecting them?

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