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Has anyone heard of this program? Share The Good? I just got an email saying we would discuss it in Stake Meeting. The title alone gives me the heebeejeebee’s.
Share The Good? ^^^^^^ That’s what I’m afraid of. We are getting into a rebranding trend. New wine. Old Skins.
If I find out differently I will share.
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/church/share/goodness?lang=eng #ShareGoodness is my guess
Thanks Roy. Phun. Do we really need more time in “social media”? Maybe it shows my age, I avoid programs like this. It is not aimed at my generation. Facebook, etc.
If you have something to tell me, say it to my face or not at all.
Does anyone see anything positive?
signed, Cranky old man.
Minyan Man – I do social media, but this is cringeworthy – if this is the program. It bugs me for 2 reasons
- What was the point of Social Media Fasts, if we insist on using it to drive a message – like everyone else?
- It comes off badly. Period. You look like a braggard or a branding nightmare. Let good works speak for themselves.
I personally didn’t participate in the Social Media fasts, but it’s been rumored that it was the final straw to Utah’s Mia Love’s loss in the United States Senate. If it is, bad choice on multiple parts.
Years ago, when I was totally devout, I found myself cringing at “Only God” bumper stickers. This feels the same. I don’t mind if your ward acknowledges good things. We should do that. It helps us learn to engage in positive things. But asking us to take up the twitter war seems over the top to me. (And I am being nice).
From what I’ve seen over the years we don’t appear to have a problem posting general conference memes all over social media. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Fortunately I don’t do social media except a very limited presence on Linkedin. I will be spared. It has nothing to do with my age, BTW, it’s more about me being a fairly private person who could also become very addicted to social media. As proof of the addiction, look how often I come here. But no social media also comes in quite handy whenever we have those kinds of conversations in meetings. We did have a talk that included less screen time/less game time in our most recent stake priesthood meeting. That talk also included a section on porn. Our time can be much better spent doing family history, of course. :problem: (I find myself wondering how exactly one does serious FH research on one’s phone on a bus, but since I live in an area where it’s not possible to even try that I guess I’ll never know.)I love the idea of doing good in the world, but I hate how in the church doing good means spreading the gospel. Especially on social media. We spend so much of our time as a church focusing on missionary work, that we make little or no effort to do service. When so many other churches do.
I wish we would focus more on doing that than spreading the gospel. Like I love how around Christmas time, we do the Light the World campaign or when it’s national service day, each stake comes up with different ways to serve in our community.
I wish the church would do more of that, (I know we help out with the humanitarian aid when there’s natural disasters, but that’s not enough). Like what if each month, we as a church, came up with a couple simple acts of kindness we as individuals or families could do for people in our community. Like for family night one time, my sister made small slips of paper that said something like, “I’m thinking about you today”. We handed them out to people in public.
I think the church would make more of a difference in the world if we focused more on service than missionary work.
I have no pressure to do missionary work or participating in a new program just because it’s presented as a new program or an old program wrapped in a new bow. My wife is good at doing missionary work & I support her when I can. Plus, IMO all service work doesn’t begin & end
with the Church. I do what I feel inspired to do at any given moment. Sometimes it is visiting older members in the Nursing Home. Walking or
talking with them. Sometimes taking them to church or the store. No one usually knows I do it. And I prefer it that way. No PPH interviews,
or reports to hand in. If someone calls me on it, I would be happy to tell them. Frankly, it’s none of their business.
No pressure, no fuss. Just the way I like it.
thegreythinker wrote:
I love the idea of doing good in the world, but I hate how in the church doing good means spreading the gospel. Especially on social media.We spend so much of our time as a church focusing on missionary work, that we make little or no effort to do service. When so many other churches do.
I wish we would focus more on doing that than spreading the gospel. Like I love how around Christmas time, we do the Light the World campaign or when it’s national service day, each stake comes up with different ways to serve in our community. [snip]
Part of the challenge is that culturally “tCoJCoLDS” is “the gospel,” interchangeable, one and the same. For instance, when someone leaves the church I’ve heard many people lament that someone has chosen to leave
the gospel. We have a really difficult time separating the two separate entities. IMO doing service is “spreading the gospel.” Spreading the gospel has less to do with increasing the size of an organization and more to do with bringing Christ to people on a personal level aka service.
Preach the gospel, and if necessary, use words.
Quote:I wish the church would do more of that, (I know we help out with the humanitarian aid when there’s natural disasters, but that’s not enough). Like what if each month, we as a church, came up with a couple simple acts of kindness we as individuals or families could do for people in our community. Like for family night one time, my sister made small slips of paper that said something like, “I’m thinking about you today”. We handed them out to people in public.
I think the church would make more of a difference in the world if we focused more on service than missionary work.
Ironically that was the initial idea behind Just Serve. In some areas they do have more robust Just Serve programs. I know because I see two neighboring Stakes doing it. However, the idea of just spending an entire GC asking us just to serve. To create slips of paper, to read to low income kids, to visit neighbors with no more agenda than being a friend, would be awesome. Like for a decade. Totally reroute the purpose. Kind of a What Would Jesus Do type program.
We aren’t the only religion stuck in this problem. Most or many are. Even Catholic Charities is a side note operation. I watch plenty of churches, many do much bigger than we do. Almost everyone of them has “missionary theme” attached to it.
As for me and my house I am picking the “What Would Jesus Do” program. Not sharing it on Social Media.
Returning and Reporting – Good News – It isn’t as nefarious as I feared. Other news – Do we really need it? It’s an invitation to share stories of good works, efforts, etc both in and out of our community. No proselyting, just sharing, that a group of CofJC people cleaned a park today. Or you and your neighbors made lunches and took them to a homeless camp.
They are looking for multiple ways to share the stories, your own blogs and social media, church magazines, local press.
The idea is to spread happy news and inspirational ideas to others. With the hope of giving others ideas they can use where they live and also begin a tide of more positive spin on life.
Now – there maybe more to it, but that’s how it was pitched to us.
Minyan Man wrote:Do we really need more time in “social media”?
Maybe it shows my age, I avoid programs like this. It is not aimed at my generation. Facebook, etc.
If you have something to tell me, say it to my face or not at all.
Does anyone see anything positive?
signed, Cranky old man.
I am with you. If it is on social media I do not see it.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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