Logos Asks: What would you ask your church in a survey?

Bob Pritchett
Bob Pritchett Member, Logos Employee Posts: 2,280
edited November 2024 in English Forum

Does your church use surveys? Would you like to?

Which of these do you do, or would you like to?

- Surveys to collect information, tied to respondents.

- Anonymous surveys. (For what?)

- Survey on spiritual maturity. (What books / guides / helps / services do you use for these questions? Do you have your own?)

- Survey on Bible engagement.

- Survey on spiritual gifts / volunteering interests / skills.

- Church health.

- Personal needs / habits / interests.

- Program satisfaction / feedback.

What are you doing / do you want to do in this area?

Comments

  • Bruce Dunning
    Bruce Dunning MVP Posts: 11,163

    Our church doesn't use a lot of surveys but we have done some over the years. I actually wish that we used more. I love the idea of doing surveys for spiritual growth, spiritual gifts and church health.

    Are you asking this because you are considering offering the option on a Logos platform? If so, that sounds quite promising to me.

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  • DMB
    DMB Member Posts: 14,464 ✭✭✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/631790#Comment_631790

    We use anonymous surveys for the mundane ... when's the best time for the Christmas party, should we do the Labor Day dinner or not, etc.  More often than not, it's just a show of hands unless the subject is argumentable.

    Don't know if you thought about it, but the survey concept is also amenable to sign-ups, I'd assume.  We have bunches of those.

    "If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.

  • Ed Blough
    Ed Blough Member Posts: 98 ✭✭

    Problem with surveys is the wording of the survey can have as much effect on the out come as the actual opinions.

    I was involved in a survey construction for a major corporation a number of years ago. We had to do surveys of the survey to make sure we had produced a neutral survey.

    Simple word usage such as "Would you like" produced a different result than "Do you want"

    Also people try to figure out what motivates the survey and then second guess why the questions are being asked. A series of questions about one subject will lead them positively or negatively depending on their overall feeling of the subject.  

    Case in point the question was already asked about Logos' intent or reason behind asking this question. 

    To me the outcome of a survey is more dependent on the abilities of a people that constructed the survey than the opinions of the surveyed people.

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