I always felt like there was all this pressure to drag people in/back to the church. Even as a Returned Missionary and former Ward Mission Leader, I never
I was Elder's Quorum President at the time. I left the church not long before they rolled out HTW. I kept thinking the Vacuum Cleaner will soon come out, instead we all got a booklet called 'Becoming The Bold missionary'.
I also attended a Missionary Zone Conference once and it was a complete Vacuum Cleaner sales type pitch throughout by the Mish Pres. I used to look around during the various lessons,EQ, Sunday School Class (not investigator one) and Sacrament meeting and wonder how come no one seem to notice what's wrong with how they are taking all the blame for growth failure and saddled with unworthiness guilt as the reason. I was shocked how they were told that the church has put the programs in place etc and that members need to be worthy for them to work! I remember during 2005-2007 that the Ward members were being blamed exclusively for the low convert rate and lack of investigators. I truly believe that there's a lot of TBMs that don't reallyĮnjoy church that much, they just don't really allow themselves to recognise it yet. The latest sales programme rehash, members would themselves be hastening the work without any promoting. If TSCC was actually true and as wonderful a blessing in the member's lives as they like to think, you wouldn't need to keep guilting members into participating in I was early NOM at the time of this conversation and whilst it shocked me, I could completely agree. He noted that unless TSCC focuses more on the actual members that are striving to be there on a Sunday with the hope of being spiritually uplifted (and after serving as SP he was acutely aware of the secret struggles that even some senior, long-serving members had) they should bye surprised when they stop attending. Many have admitted to me privately that they have shelves with multiple issues, many disagree with leaders (gay marriage in particular) and many see that there is a disconnect between the glossy PR/website and what is experienced on a Sunday.Ī former Stake President (with some NOM (New Order Mormon) tendencies and a degree of cognitive dissonance) confided to me that he was sick of the constant 'member missionary/recruitment' drive. I also think lots of TBMs I know are not as 'unshakable' as they like to portray.
I was as TBM (True Believing Mormon) as they come until the introduction of the chapel toilet cleaning programme inspired me to google to see if other members felt as aggrieved as I did. One day or another, members will ask themselves why they don't enjoy church any more, why theįocus is all on sales and why their non-member & exmo friends are happier. To do more on the MLM recruitment front won't go down well. Many members are overworked & spiritually malnourished - asking them I also prophecy that this completely over the top approach on HTW will backfire big time. Salesforce, must really be hurting TSCC (The So Called Church) where it counts.
Losing existing customers and not replacing them quickly enough with quality recruits, despite increased PR/marketing spend/larger Unsurprisingly Church Head Quarters has decided that all Stake conferences (worldwide I believe) have to be focused on 'HTW' and also that the usual Saturday eveningĪdult session is to be extended to all 12+ and will also be on the topic of HTW. While I wasn't planning to attend anyway, the stake presidency have kindly given members a heads-up so they can also choose by sherlock from Recovery from Mormonism Hastening the Work - Busying the Beehive of Mormonism Hastening the Work - Busying the Beehive of Mormonism
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