Join me (with my lovely colleague Naomi King) on Wednesday, August 24 at 8pm EDT for a tweetchat on Generations in the Church – Experifailing!
Use the hashtag #genchurch to follow. I recommending using TweetChat.com to isolate and better follow the chat.
IMPORTANT: When you are chatting, please do BOTH of the following:
- Use #genchurch in your tweet so it is part of the TweetChat.
- Identify your generation by initial:
- GI Generation – GI
- Silent – S
- Boomer – B
- GenX – X
- Millennial – M
Some background you’ll find helpful:
For the purposes of this chat, we’ll be using the Strauss & Howe/Eeman delineations for generations. Keep this chart handy for reference during the chat:
| Name of Current Generation | Generational Type | Current Ages (born between) |
| GI | Civic | 86+ (1901-1925) |
| Silent | Adaptive | 69-85 (1925-1942) |
| Boomer | Idealist | 51-68 (1943-1960) |
| GenX | Nomad | 29-50 (1961-1982) |
| Millennial | Civic | 7-28 (1983-2004) |
| Homeland (?) | Adaptive | up to age 6 (2005-2026?) |
Some of the things we’ll talk about:
- What does ‘experifail’ – failing faithfully – mean to you? Do you think your definition is generational in approach?
- What are the barriers to experifailing?
- How does your (personal and generational) approach to experimenting, failure, success, and new initiatives fit in your congregation/religious community?
- What do you need to begin experifailing in order to affect change?
Some ground rules:
- Please be kind! Generational differences can be amplified when we’re talking about generational differences.
- Please stay on topic – jokes and related topics are okay, and are part of the ebb and flow of a conversation, but let’s keep it to Experifailing and Generations in the Church.
- Please indicate irony, snark, rhetorical questions… sadly, we still don’t have emotive fonts!
- Please remember these are public conversations.
If you have any questions before the chat, please feel free to drop me an email/comment/tweet!
