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I’m intending – from time to time – on this blog to explore models of online ministry. I know sometimes it’s better not to try and reduce everything down to a formula and just let God does His stuff, but I also believe God gave us a brain and we should use it whenever we can. Perhaps a model of ministry might help you decide the direction to take your website or ministry in.

I’m interested in six stages of successful change that psychologists have come up with because I think it could help with trying to understand how to form a model for online ministry. This process is outlined in the book “Changing forGood” by James Prochaska P.H.D., John Norcross P.H.D. and Carlo Diclemente P.H.D.

The stages are:

• Precontemplation
• Contemplation
• Preparation
• Action
• Maintenance
• Termination

If we can identify which stage people are in then perhaps we can respond to their needs more appropriately. It seems to me that many Christian websites try to get the attention of precontemplators (those with no interest, yet) when they should really be targetting the contemplators (those who are thinking about things) or even those in the preparation stage (gathering information, etc to help them make the change).

Precontemplators just don’t see the point and may well be quite anti. They are an important group of people to work with and may form the majority but if you are going to work with precontemplators then your focus needs to be to convince them that making a change is a good idea and not try and force the point of how they should change.

I hope this all makes sense. I’m sure there is going to be time to consider all this at another time.

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