The Future of Work in Church:

  1. In person worship gatherings will be more important.
  2. The majority of churches in five years will have a non-church organization using their facilities on weekdays.
  3. Small groups will be even more vital to the health of congregations.
  4. Office workers will disappear.
  5. Full-time ministers are disappearing rapidly.
  6. We must be prepared for the dominance of bi-vocational and co-vocational ministers in our churches.
  7. This new future of work will require more “raising up” of ministry staff within our churches.
  8. The enigma in the future of work in churches is the positions of student ministry and children’s ministry.
  9. Pastors and ministry staff should … be asking the question, “What do I do if I have to become bi-vocational from full-time?”
  10. Technology will continue to change the work of pastoral care.